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End of Story: Toward an Annihilation of Language and History

By Crispin Sartwell

Book information

Year
2000
ISBN
0791447251, 9780791447253, 9780585427560
LCC
P106 .S226 2000
Open Library ID
OL6785344M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
430 kB (440278 bytes)
Pages
138\151
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In End of Story, Crispin Sartwell maintains that the academy is obsessed with language, and with narrative in particular. Narrative has been held to constitute or explain time, action, value, history, and human identity. Sartwell argues that this obsession with language and narrative has become a sort of disease. Pitting such thinkers as Kierkegaard, Bataille, and Epictetus against the narrativism of MacIntyre, Ricoeur, and Aristotle, Sartwell celebrates the ways narratives and selves disintegrate and recommends a lapse into ecstatic or mundane incoherence. As the book rollicks through Wodehouse, Thoreau, the Book of Job, still-life painting, and Sartwell's autobiography, there emerges a hopeful if bizarre new sense of who we are and what we can be.

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