{"product_id":"the-use-and-abuse-of-stories-new-directions-in-narrative-hermeneutics-explorations-in-narrative-psych-series-9780197571026","title":"The Use and Abuse of Stories New Directions in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis innovative collection brings together experts from a range of fields including literature, psychology, philosophy, education, and medicine to explore the dangers of narrative and the recuperative possibilities of a narrative hermeneutics. Timely, and wide-ranging in scope, this book will be of great value to scholars and practitioners who want to understand why stories are so pervasive in a 'post-truth' era and how they may yet spark our political imagination. * Sujatha Fernandes, author of Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling (Oxford, 2017) *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a necessary book for these times. Amid darkness, suspicion, and cold estrangement come searchers to shed light on our shipwreck. These essays clear an intellectually rigorous path from post-truth to reciprocal solicitude for the Other. Authentic dialogue and relation are again within reach. * Rita Charon, author of Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness *\u003cbr\u003eWe human beings are hopelessly hermeneutical beings. We can't help but make up stories-be they 'true' or 'false' or somewhere in between-to make sense of our lives, ourselves, our worlds. This volume, an impressive collection of solid and wide-ranging scholarship, constitutes a searching, sorely-needed meditation on the role of the narrative turn itself in both contributing to-and countering-the emergence of our so-called 'post-truth' age. It's a book which narrativists in every field, not to mention politicians of every stripe, should take seriously indeed. * William L. Randall, author of The Narrative Complexity of Ordinary Life: Tales from the Coffee Shop *\u003cbr\u003eHow can we humans live amid increasingly violent conflicting interpretations of our world and each other? These essays allow readers to judge how far narrative hermeneutics can help with this troubling problem. * Arthur Frank, author of Letting Stories Breathe and King Lear: Shakespeare's Dark Consolations *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Challenges and Prospects of Narrative Hermeneutics in Tumultuous Times Hanna Meretoja and Mark Freeman  Part I:  Politics of Storytelling  Chapter 1: The Inevitability, and Danger, of Narrative Mark Freeman  Chapter 2: Testimony: Truth, Lies, and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion Colin Davis  Chapter 3: Hermeneutic Awareness in Uncertain Times: Post-truth, Narrative Agency, and Existential Diminishment Hanna Meretoja  Part II: Understanding the Self  Chapter 4: Verstehen and narrative Jens Brockmeier  Chapter 5: \"Be Loyal to the Story\": Sorrow, Narrative, and Truth-telling Molly Andrews  Chapter 6: Narrative as an Interpretation of Self-Pattern Shaun Gallagher  Chapter 7: Speaking of Elves, Dragons, and Werewolves: Narrative Hermeneutics and Other-than-Human Identities Clive Baldwin, Lauren Ripley, and Shania Arsenault  Part III: Understanding the Other  Chapter 8: Identity, Understanding, and Narrative Georgia Warnke  Chapter 9: Found in Translation: Solicitude and Linguistic Hospitality in Storytelling  Andreea Deciu Ritivoi  Chapter 10: The Hermeneutics of Darkness: Interpreting Perpetrators on their Crimes Brian Schiff, Kaylee Altimore, and Genevieve Bougher  Chapter 11: Perpetrator Histories, Silencing and Untold Stories: A View from Contemporary Psychoanalysis  Roger Frie  Part IV: Narrative Practices  Chapter 12: Literary and Film Narratives Jakob Lothe  Chapter 13: Queer Perspectives on Narrative Practices in Asylum Politics Ada Schwanck  Chapter 14: Narrative Medicine: The Book at the Gates of Biomedicine Danielle Spencer  Chapter 15: Psychiatric Truth and Narrative Hermeneutics  Bradley Lewis  Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732652437847,"sku":"9780197571026","price":71.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-use-and-abuse-of-stories-new-directions-in-narrative-hermeneutics-explorations-in-narrative-psych-series-9780197571026","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}