Narrative and Understanding PersonsDaniel D. Hutto Cambridge University Press, 12.07.2007 - 236 Seiten The human world is replete with narratives - narratives of our making that are uniquely appreciated by us. Some thinkers have afforded special importance to our capacity to generate such narratives, seeing it as variously enabling us to: exercise our imaginations in unique ways; engender an understanding of actions performed for reasons; and provide a basis for the kind of reflection and evaluation that matters vitally to moral and self development. Perhaps most radically, some hold that narratives are essential for the constitution of human selves. This volume brings together nine original contributions in which the individual authors advance, develop and challenge proposals of these kinds. They critically examine the place and importance of narratives in human lives and consider the underlying capacities that permit us to produce and utilise these special artifacts. All of the papers are written in a non-technical and accessible style. |
Inhalt
Framing Narratives | 17 |
Origins and Applications | 43 |
Dramatic Irony Narrative and the External Perspective | 69 |
Episodic Ethics | 85 |
On the Distance between Literary Narratives and RealLife | 117 |
Strawson Death and Narrative | 133 |
A Refinement and Defense | 155 |
The Limits of Narrative Understanding | 179 |
Pathologies in Narrative Structures | 203 |
Urheberrecht | |