Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Crisis of NarrationCondition: NewEAN: 9781509560431ISBN: 9781509560431Publisher: Polity PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/02/2024Description: Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling becomes storyselling and narratives lose their binding force. Whereas narratives create community, storytelling brings forth only a fleeting community – the community of consumers. No amount of storytelling could recreate the fire around which humans gather to tell each other stories. That fire has long since burnt out. It has been replaced by the digital screen, which separates people rather than bringing them together. Through storytelling, capitalism appropriates narrative: stories sell. They are no longer a medium of shared experience. The inflation of storytelling betrays a need to cope with contingency, but storytelling is unable to transform the information society back into a stable narrative community. Rather, storytelling as storyselling is a pathological phenomenon of our age. Byung-Chul Han, one of the most perceptive cultural theorists of contemporary society, dissects this crisis with exceptional insight and flair.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 209mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 15mmItem Weight: 142gAuthor: Byung-Chul HanTranslator: Daniel SteuerContributor: Daniel Steuer (Translated by)Genre: Music Dance & TheatreTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Crisis of Narration
Title: The Crisis of Narration
EAN: 9781509560431
ISBN: 9781509560431
Release Date: 02/02/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Translator: Daniel Steuer
Contributor: Daniel Steuer (Translated by)
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 100 Pages
Publication Name: Crisis of Narration
Language: English
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication Year: 2024
Subject: General
Item Height: 0.4 in
Item Weight: 4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Byung-Chul Han
Item Length: 8.1 in
Subject Area: Philosophy
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback