How Change and Identity Coexist in Personal Individuality: A Phenomenological Account of Self-Shaping

Acknowledgment
Introduction
Contents
Chapter 1: The Fundamental Issue of Personal Individuality and Its Significance
	How Change and Identity Seem to Coexist in Personal Individuality
	Descriptive Phenomenology and the Focus on Experience
Chapter 2: Theories on Personal Identity Do Not Solve the Fundamental Issue
	Views on the Self from the Third-Person Perspective
	Practical Identity and Self-Constitution
		What Drives Me to Regard Myself as a Project of Self-Shaping? Husserl’s Stance on the Kind of Self I Ought to Be
Chapter 3: Theories on Self-Imagination Do Not Solve the Fundamental Issue
	Moral Imagination and Literature: How to Flex Personal Individuality
	The Epistemic Function of Imagination and Self-Knowledge
		A Phenomenological Account: How Free Phantasy Oversteps the Scope of Contingency
		Overview Over Husserl’s Stance on Phantasy and Imagination
Chapter 4: What Does My Self Consist in? A Multilayer Pattern of Personal Individuality
	The Source and Rules of My Value-Preference and Value-Depreciation
		How to Grasp the Contents of My Ordo Amoris: What Do I Love and Hate?
	Individual Destiny and “Good-in-itself for me”
Chapter 5: How the Multilayer Pattern Solves the Fundamental Issue. Self-Discovery and Readiness for Self-Reorchestration as Overriding Keys to Self-Shaping
	Personal Upheavals as Essential Keys to Individuality
	What Do I Change When I Change Myself and How Can I Change Myself Without Turning into Someone Else?
	What Triggers the Change? Exemplariness as the Linchpin of Self-Shaping
		‘From Within’ View on the Self and ‘From Outside’ View on the Self
Chapter 6: Exemplariness as the Key to My Self-Possibilities
	Why Scheler’s Stance on Exemplariness Is Noteworthy
	Exemplariness as the Key to Unexpected and Essential Aspects of my Individuality
	The Look of the Other
	Objective and Personal Orders of Values: A Phenomenological Perspective
Chapter 7: Exemplariness in Comparison with Other Modes of Influence
	Exemplars, Leaders, Models
	How not to Mistake Models for Exemplars
	How Exemplariness Differs from Personal Influence on Self-Shaping
	How Exemplariness Differs from Participation
Chapter 8: Availability to Self-Reorchestration: A Panoramic View on Life
	Life Graspable as a Whole: The Possibility That Our Life Is Given to Us in Experience as a Whole
	When Availability to Self-Reorchestration Is Not Enough
	What Lays the Foundation for the Possibility of Changes in the Very Direction of an Individual’s Development?
Chapter 9: Self-Shaping and Aesthetic Experiences
	Maladaptive Daydreaming: From Self-Shaping to Self-Destruction
	Phantasy and Aesthetic Experiences
	Phantasy and Literary Exemplarism
Chapter 10: The Transcendence of Personal Individuality and the Role of the Imaginary in Self-Shaping
Bibliography
Index