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| Publisher | Museum Tusculanum Press |
| ISBN 13 | 9788763540360 |
| Book Description | Hannah Arendt famously argued that politics are best understood as a power relationship between private and public realms. And storytelling, she argued, creates a vital bridge between these realms, a place where individual passions and shared perspectives can be contested and interwoven. In The Politics of Storytellingrevised in this 2nd edition with a new preface and designanthropologist Michael Jackson explores and expands on ArendtÂ’s notions, bringing stories from all around the world into impressive cross-cultural analysis. Jackson retells stories from the Kuranko in Sierra Leone, the Australian Aboriginals, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commissionby refugees, renegades, and war veterans. Focusing on the violent and volatile conditions under which stories are toldor silencedhe explores the power of narrative to remake reality, enabling people to symbolically alter their relations and help reclaim an existential viability. Above all, he shows how ArendtÂ’s writings on narrative deepen our understanding of the critical, therapeutic, and politic role of storytelling, that it is one of the crucial ways by which we understand one another. |
| Language | English |
| Author | Michael Jackson |
| Edition Number | 2 |
| Publication Date | 41856 |
| Number of Pages | 319 |
The Politics Of Storytelling: Variations On A Theme By Hannah Arendt Paperback English by Michael Jackson - 41856
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