Living in Spin: Narrative as a Distributed Ontology of Human Action (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781467854771)

All the hard questions about human action are about what to include in a story, what can be left out, and how to characterize what gets included. A narrative selects from all the world's motions which ones are part of or relevant to an act, and so narratives give us what narratives have already shaped: the relation is circular. Many narratives can be told of an act, not all consistent. Some features of human action: - events "off-stage" determine what's happening "on-stage"; - many actions pass through'' motions in view; - an act can be changed after the fact; - action presupposes language; - what an act is can be highly ambiguous; - we judge acts (and narratives) because we have a stake in them.

Author: Andrew P. Porter
ISBN-10: 1467854778
ISBN-13: 9781467854771
Publisher: Authorhouse
Language: English
Published: 11/16/2011
Pages: 332
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d