Consciousness Is Story-Shaped: How and Why Narrative Mirrors the Mind

by Richard Rosenbaum

Why do we conceptualize our experience primarily in terms of stories? This monograph is a groundbreaking exploration of how narrative structures mirror the architecture of human thought.

Drawing from disciplines as diverse as narratology, philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science, it meticulously examines Joseph Campbell's theory of the 'monomyth', positing its isomorphism with the Categories of Judgment that Immanuel Kant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3111449750
• ISBN13: 9783111449753
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 250 Pages