A Stork for an Introduction; Part I Heroes; Chapter 1 The Story of Oedipus; Chapter 2 The Paradox of Ulysses; Chapter 3 The Desire For One's Story; Part II Women; Chapter 4 Oedipus Errs Twice; Chapter 5 On the Outskirts of Milan; Chapter 6 In a New York Bookstore; Part III Lovers; Chapter 7 The Necessary Other; Chapter 8 Orpheus the Poet; Chapter 9 The Voice of Eurydice; Chapter 10 Eros and Narration; Part IV Narrators; Chapter 11 Scheherazade Trapped in the Text; Chapter 12 Karen Blixen, or the Classic Rule of Storytelling; Chapter 13 The World is Full of Stories Just Waiting to be Told;
'This is an important book, not least for the fruitful ways in
which it brings two dominant modes of cognition in the West,
philosophy and narrative, face to face with each other. And perhaps
even more important for its joyous and antinomian rejection of what
narrative has brought us, in interiority and all its burdens.' -
Radical Philosophy
'This is an important book, not least for the fruitful ways in
which it brings two dominant modes of cognition in the West,
philosophy and narrative, face to face with each other. And perhaps
even more important for its joyous and antinomian rejection of what
narrative has brought us, in interiority and all its burdens.' -
Radical Philosophy
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