Narration and Self: Daniel Dennett and Clément Rosset on Identity Construction Dispositives

Abstract

This paper tries to reflect about the ontological status of the concept of personal identity from the perspective of «narrative self-theories» developed by Daniel Dennett and Clément Rosset. The aim of this paper is not trying to provide a final solution for the question of identity's existence, but to show how it appears to us, what things have in common the process of identity construction and the narrative process and the active role of, on the one hand, oneself and, on the other hand, the others in identity's edification.