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The Ethics of Storytelling - Narrative Hermeneutics, History, and the Possible (Hardcover)
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The Ethics of Storytelling - Narrative Hermeneutics, History, and the Possible (Hardcover)
Series: Explorations in Narrative Psychology
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Against the backdrop of the polarized debate on the ethical
significance of storytelling, Hanna Meretoja's The Ethics of
Storytelling: Narrative Hermeneutics, History, and the Possible
develops a nuanced framework for exploring the ethical complexity
of the roles narratives play in our lives. Focusing on how
narratives enlarge and diminish the spaces of possibilities in
which we act, think, and re-imagine the world together with others,
this book proposes a theoretical-analytical framework for engaging
with both the ethical potential and risks of storytelling. Further,
it elaborates a narrative hermeneutics that treats narratives as
culturally mediated practices of (re)interpreting experiences and
articulates how narratives can be oppressive, empowering, or both.
It also argues that the relationship between narrative unconscious
and narrative imagination shapes our sense of the possible. In her
book, Meretoja develops a hermeneutic narrative ethics that
differentiates between six dimensions of the ethical potential of
storytelling: the power of narratives to cultivate our sense of the
possible; to contribute to individual and cultural
self-understanding; to enable understanding other lives
non-subsumptively in their singularity; to transform the narrative
in-betweens that bind people together; to develop our
perspective-awareness and capacity for perspective-taking; and to
function as a form of ethical inquiry. This book addresses our
implication in violent histories and argues that it is as dialogic
storytellers, fundamentally vulnerable and dependent on one
another, that we become who we are: both as individuals and
communities. The Ethics of Storytelling seamlessly incorporates
narrative ethics, literary narrative studies, narrative psychology,
narrative philosophy, and cultural memory studies. It contributes
to contemporary interdisciplinary narrative studies by developing
narrative hermeneutics as a philosophically rigorous, historically
sensitive, and analytically subtle approach to the ethical stakes
of the debate on the narrative dimension of human existence.
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