ABSTRACT
In his classic work After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre drew attention to the significance of narrative as a twofold factor in relation to the unity of the self.1 On the one hand, a person does not achieve self-comprehension as a mere continuum of personal experiences, but in terms of a story on narrative of his or her life. On the other hand, no individual can exist without having a relation to some social context or other. Our sense of who and what we are is in part defined by our sense of belonging to, or alienation from, communities into which we have been initiated and/or within which we currently exist. Our personal identity thus relates also to a collective narrative.
