How can we develop a cultural theory starting with the basic
insight that human beings are "storytelling animals"? Within
literary studies, narratology is a highly developed field. However,
literary historians have not paid much attention to the large and
small stories abounding in everyday discourse, guiding all kinds of
social activity, and providing common ground for whole
societies-but also fueling controversies and hostilities. Moreover,
"narrative" is not only a scholarly category but has come into use
in many fields of social activity as a tool for cultural
self-fashioning. This book is based on the assumption that to a
large extent, social dynamics is modeled in an aesthetic manner via
narratives. It explores the narrative organization of cultural
spaces and time-frames, the mythological shaping of communities and
adversaries, and the co-production of narratives and institutions
aimed at stabilizing social life. In this framework, the
epistemological problem looms large of how an instrument as
unreliable as narrative can participate in the creation of a social
consensus regarding truth. This problem endows the general topics
explored in this book with a particularly contemporary dimension.
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