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Narrated Communities â Narrated Realities
Narration as Cognitive Processing and Cultural Practice
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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, Andersonâs âImagined Communitiesâ need to be thought of as âNarrated Communitiesâ 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 ârealâ 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 bookâs 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.
In essence, Andersonâs âImagined Communitiesâ need to be thought of as âNarrated Communitiesâ 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 ârealâ 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 bookâs 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.
Contents
Editorsâ 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 âTropes?
Michael Böhler
âRender Innocuous the Abstraction We Fearâ: Johann Wolfgang Goethe in the Epochal Conflict between Scientific Knowledge and Narrative Knowing
Arianna Borrelli
Between Logos and Mythos: Narratives of âNaturalnessâ in Todayâs Particle Physics Community
Narration, Fiction and the Entangled Human Sciences
Bernd Bösel
Philosophy as an âIntroduction to a General Science of Revolutionâ? On Peter Sloterdijkâs 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 â Uncanny Narration: Freudâs 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 Lessingâs âAlfred and Emilyâ and the Ethics of Narrated Memory
Aura Heydenreich
Closed Timelike Curves: Gödelâs Solution for Einsteinâs Field Equa- tions in the General Theory of Relativity and Bachâs âThe Musical Offeringâ as Configuration Models for Narrative Identity Constructions in Richard Powersâs âThe Time of Our Singingâ
Translating Narrations into Different Cultures and Media
Michael Rössner
Translatio/ns of Identity-Building Narratives: The Character of âEl Cidâ 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. 1800âca. 1880) as a Paradigm of Narration and Translation
Notes on Contributors
Index of Names
Academic personnel in various disciplines concerned with narration: culture studies, literature, history, psychology, politology, translation studies; -- people with general interest in a transdisciplinary approach to culture studies and science.