The Crisis of Narration

by Byung-Chul Han

Book Overview

Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling becomes storyselling and narratives lose their binding force.

Whereas narratives create community, storytelling brings forth only a fleeting community - the community of consumers. No amount of storytelling could recreate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509560432
• ISBN13: 9781509560431
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.3"