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- End of Story: Toward an Annihilation of Language and History
- Book
- 2000
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- p. xi
- 1. TELOS AND TORTURE
- pp. 9-38
- 2. SIGN AND SIN
- pp. 39-68
- 3. HISTORY ANDMULTIPLICITY
- pp. 69-98
- 4. PRESENCE AND FATE
- pp. 99-134
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791491836
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
50825573
Pages
150
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No