Living in Spin

Narrative as a Distributed Ontology of Human Action

von Andrew P. Porter

332 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

All the hard questions about human action are about what to include in a story, what can be left out, and how to characterize what gets included. A narrative selects from all the world's motions which ones are part of or relevant to an act, and so narratives give us what narratives have already shaped: the relation is circular. Many narratives can be told of an act, not all consistent. Some features of human action: - events "off-stage" determine what's happening "on-stage"; - many actions ``pass through'' motions in view; - an act can be changed after the fact; - action presupposes language; - what an act is can be highly ambiguous; - we judge acts (and narratives) because we have a stake in them.

• Reihe: AuthorHouse
• ISBN: 9781467854771
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.11.2011
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Archway Publishing