End of Story
Toward an Annihilation of Language and History
Seiten
2000
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-4726-0 (ISBN)
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-4726-0 (ISBN)
Argues that the academy's obsession with language, and in particular with narrative, has become a sort of disease.
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.
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.
Crispin Sartwell is Chair of Humanities and Sciences at Maryland Institute, College of Art. He is the author of several books, including The Art of Living: Aesthetics of the Ordinary in World Spiritual Traditions and Obscenity, Anarchy, Reality, also published by SUNY Press.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Putting Language in Its Place
1. Telos and Torture
2. Sign and Sin
3. History and Multiplicity
4. Presence and Fate
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.11.2000 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 0 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 218 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7914-4726-X / 079144726X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7914-4726-0 / 9780791447260 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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