End of Story: Toward an Annihilation of Language and History [Paperback]

Crispin Sartwell (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 079144726X | ISBN-13: 978-0791447260 | Publication Date: October 2000

In End of Story, Crispin Sartwell maintains that the academy is obsessed with language, and with narrative in particular. Narrative has been held to constitute or explain time, action, value, history, and human identity. Sartwell argues that this obsession with language and narrative has become a sort of disease. Pitting such thinkers as Kierkegaard, Bataille, and Epictetus against the narrativism of MacIntyre, Ricoeur, and Aristotle, Sartwell celebrates the ways narratives and selves disintegrate and recommends a lapse into ecstatic or mundane incoherence. As the book rollicks through Wodehouse, Thoreau, the Book of Job, still-life painting, and Sartwell's autobiography, there emerges a hopeful if bizarre new sense of who we are and what we can be.

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About the Author

Crispin Sartwell is Chair of Humanities and Sciences at Maryland Institute, College of Art. He is the author of several books, including The Art of Living: Aesthetics of the Ordinary in World Spiritual Traditions and Obscenity, Anarchy, Reality, also published by SUNY Press.

Product Details

• Paperback: 138 pages
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr (October 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 079144726X
• ISBN-13: 978-0791447260
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,646,109 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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