The politics of storytelling : variations on a theme by Hannah Arendt

The politics of storytelling : variations on a theme by Hannah Arendt / Michael Jackson.

Hannah Arendt famously argued that politics is 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. This book ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jackson, Michael, 1940- (Author)
Other Authors: Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Copenhagen : Museum Musculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2013.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Critical anthropology (Copenhagen, Denmark) ; v. 3.
Subjects:
Storytelling.
Storytelling > Political aspects.
Intersubjectivity.
Social psychology.
Violence.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine Generated Contents: Pt. I. DISPLACEMENTS
  • The Stories that Shadow Us
  • "You Never Saw Your Own Faces": Reflections on Privacy and Publicity in the Lives of Refugees
  • In Extremis: Refugee Stories/Refugee Lives
  • Displacement, Suffering, and the Critique of Cultural Fundamentalism
  • Pt. II. RETURNS
  • Preamble
  • Retaliation and Reconciliation
  • From the Tragic to the Comic
  • Prevented Successions
  • Pt. III. HISTORIES
  • Preamble
  • The Social Life of Stories
  • Storytelling and Critique
  • The Singular and the Shared.

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