Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Against Narrativity

Chapter 3 “The Size of the Self”: Minimalist Selves and Narrative Self-Constitution

Chapter 4 The Narrative Shape of Agency: Three Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives

Chapter 5 A Story of No Self: Literary and Philosophical Observations on Aśvaghoṣa’s Life of the Buddha

Chapter 7 Aristotle on Narrative Intelligence

Chapter 8 Dostoevsky and the Literature of Process: What Open Time Looks Like

Chapter 9 Narrative and the Literary Imagination

Chapter 10 “ And We Shall Compose a Poem to Establish These Truths ”: The Power of Narrative Art in South Asian Literary Cultures

Chapter 11 Descartes’ Biography as a Guide to His Meditations

Chapter 12 Writing the Lives of Philosophers: Reflections on Spinoza and Others

Chapter 13 Hume’s Own Life

Chapter 14 The (Ir)relevance of Biography: The Case of Fichte