The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down

by Jonathan Gottschall

Book Overview

Storytelling, a tradition that built human civilization, may soon destroy it

We are storytelling animals. No other tool is as essential to human civilization as stories. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But in The Story Paradox, Jonathan Gottschall argues that there is a dark side to storytelling we can no longer ignore.

Stories tend to be divisive, and they are especially good at short-circuiting rational thought...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541645960
• ISBN13: 9781541645967
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.5"