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Narrative Ontology
Axel Hutter
Translated by Aaron Shoichet
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Originally published in German as Narrative Ontologie © Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG Tübingen, 2017
This English edition © Polity Press, 2022
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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4393-9
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Names: Hutter, Axel, 1961- author. | Schoichet, Aaron, translator.
Title: Narrative ontology / Axel Hutter ; translated by Aaron Schoichet.
Other titles: Narrative Ontologie. English
Description: English edition. | Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA, USA : Polity Press, [2021] | “Originally published in German as Narrative Ontologie, Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG Tübingen, 2017.” | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “An original work of philosophy that highlights the connection between self-understanding and narrative form”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021016361 (print) | LCCN 2021016362 (ebook) | ISBN
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Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for which it has always been intended. Or is any riddle solved by my surviving for ever? Is not this eternal life as much of a riddle as our present life?
Wittgenstein
Foreword
Markus Gabriel
According to a widespread conception which might as well be called a worldview, reality is intrinsically meaningless. By its