End of story : toward an annihilation of language and history / Crispin Sartwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sartwell, Crispin, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

138 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2000]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Putting Language in Its Place 1

1 Telos and Torture 9

2 Sign and Sin 39

3 History and Multiplicity 69

4 Presence and Fate 99.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791447251

079144726X

OCLC:

43885395