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Culture studies try to understand how people assume identities and how they perceive reality. In this perspective narration, as a basic form of cognitive processing, is a fundamental cultural technique. Narrations provide the coherence, temporal organization and semantic integration that are essential for the development and communication of identity, knowledge and orientation in a socio-cultural context. In essence, Anderson’s “Imagined Communities” need to be thought of as “Narrated Communities” from the beginning. Narration is made up by what people think; and vice versa, narration makes up people's thoughts. What is considered ""fictitious"" or ""real"" no longer separates narratives from an ""outside"" they refer to, but rather represents different narratives. Narration not only constructs notions of what was “real” in retrospect, but also prospectively creates possible worlds, even in the (supposedly hard) sciences, as in e.g. the imaginative simulation of physical processes. The book’s unique interdisciplinary approach shows how the implications of this fundamental insight go far beyond the sphere of literature and carry weight for both scholarly and scientific disciplines.

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Author:   Hermann Blume ,  Christoph Leitgeb ,  Michael Rössner
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   183
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.407kg
ISBN:  

9789004182929

ISBN 10:   9004182926
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   13 May 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Editors’ Introduction: A Sociological Perspective on Science and Narration Jochen Gläser Stones, Mortar, Building: Knowledge Production and Community Building in Narratives in Science Narrated Realities Narration and Abstraction in Natural Sciences Klaus Mecke Narratives in Physics: Quantitative Metaphors and formula ∈Tropes? Michael Böhler “Render Innocuous the Abstraction We Fear”: Johann Wolfgang Goethe in the Epochal Conflict between Scientific Knowledge and Narrative Knowing Arianna Borrelli Between Logos and Mythos: Narratives of “Naturalness” in Today’s Particle Physics Community Narration, Fiction and the Entangled Human Sciences Bernd Bösel Philosophy as an “Introduction to a General Science of Revolution”? On Peter Sloterdijk’s Narrative-Evocative Philosophizing Brigitte Boothe Narrative Persuasion and Narrative Irritation in Psychotherapy: Bio- graphical Narratives, Deferred Dramaturgy and Narrative Affirmation Christoph Leitgeb Narrating the Uncanny – Uncanny Narration: Freud’s Essay and Theories of Fiction Narrated Communities Narration, Memory and Identity Elena Messner Literature and (Ethno-)Nationalist Narratives in the (Post-)Yugoslav Region Dorothee Birke Doris Lessing’s “Alfred and Emily” and the Ethics of Narrated Memory Aura Heydenreich Closed Timelike Curves: Gödel’s Solution for Einstein’s Field Equa- tions in the General Theory of Relativity and Bach’s “The Musical Offering” as Configuration Models for Narrative Identity Constructions in Richard Powers’s “The Time of Our Singing” Translating Narrations into Different Cultures and Media Michael Rössner Translatio/ns of Identity-Building Narratives: The Character of “El Cid” in Spanish and Latin American Texts from the 12th to the 20th Century Antonio Baldassarre The Politics of Images: Considerations on French Nineteenth-Century Orientalist Art (ca. 1800–ca. 1880) as a Paradigm of Narration and Translation Notes on Contributors Index of Names

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