The Power of Narrative
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Pascal Nouvel
About this book
Telling a story changes the way we think about an event and makes us understand it differently. The very power of storytelling lies in this process of "making understanding". We give meaning to what is happening on the basis of what we have understood about what was in the past or what could be in the future. The same is true when we tell our own story: we give different meanings to the events of our own lives in the various accounts we give of them. This process was spotted early on by the Stoic philosophers, who used it in certain "techniques of the self" (Michel Foucault) that they called "hupomnemata". The analysis of this process is at the heart of this book, which lies between philosophy, literature and historical reflection. How does meditating on one's history help to change one's own attitudes? And what does the fact that it is possible to change oneself by looking back at oneself tell us about what man is in general? Is this a universal fact, or is it limited to one or a few cultures?
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Pascal Nouvel, University of Tours, Tours, France.
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Frontmatter
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Dedication
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Methodological prologue
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Contents
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Introduction
1 - Part I The scope of narratives
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Chapter 1 Inchoativity and the birth of narrative
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Chapter 2 The ancestrality of narrative
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Chapter 3 The day-to-day nature of narrative
34 - Part II Narrative challenges
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Chapter 4 Being and narrative
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Chapter 5 The pros and cons of narrativity
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Chapter 6 Albertine’s politics
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Chapter 7 Memory and history
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Chapter 8 The lines of intelligibility of history
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Chapter 9 The novel and the power of narrative
108 - Part III Self-narrative
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Chapter 10 A genealogy of self-narrative
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Chapter 11 Ricœur and Foucault, thinkers of narrative
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Chapter 12 Dasein and self-narrative
144 - Part IV Philosophical perspectives
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Chapter 13 Rethinking Stoicism
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Chapter 14 The science of temporality
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Chapter 15 Anthropology and situationology
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Chapter 16 Towards an epistemology of political discourse
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Acknowledgments
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Bibliography
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Index
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