{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"narrativity","description":" Peter Brooks Seduced by story: The use and abuse of narrative     Chosen by New York Magazine\/Vulture as a Best Book of 2022 \u201cThere\u2019s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it.\u201d So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks\u2019s reckoning with today\u2019s flourishing cult of story. Forty years after publishing his seminal work Reading for the Plot, his important contribution to what came to be known as the \u201cnarrative turn\u201d in contemporary criticism and philosophy, Brooks returns to question the unquestioning fashion in which story is now embraced as an excuse or explanation and the fact that every brand or politician comes equipped with one. In a discussion that ranges from The Girl on the Train to legal argument, Brooks reminds us that among the powers of narrative is the power to deceive.   Praise A potent defense of attentive reading and its real-world applications. \u2014Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Brooks spent most of his career trying to impress upon readers the particular power of narrative\u2026In his most recent book, \u201cSeduced by Story,\u201d he describes the horrifying feeling of having succeeded all too well. \u2014Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker A succinct account of narrative persuasion, offering a solid case for the ambivalent power that stories can have in shaping us as individuals and nations. \u2014Caterina Domeneghini, Los Angeles Review of Books Brooks explores various fields \u2013 including psychoanalysis, legal practice and modern political discourse \u2013 in which the distinction between narrative and \u201creality\u201d has been eroded, or even collapsed. . . . It is in this context that a critical faculty \u2013 the ability to understand and critique narrative \u2013 is of vital importance. \u2014Jonathan Taylor, TLS Brooks built an influential career arguing that stories are key features of how we all experience \u2018human temporality\u2019 and strive to articulate \u2018meaning in general.\u2019 This new book is, therefore, a kind of personal as well as intellectual reckoning with narrative turns and what may be their less salubrious legacies. \u2014Killian Quigley, Australian Book Review Society\u2019s obsession with r\u00e9sum\u00e9, and its use to construct an aura of credibility, is such a pervasive element of contemporary life that it inevitably implicates even the author and his own field of \u201cliterary humanities.\u201d But that dynamic is exactly what Brooks parses in his terrific critical survey: the essential differences between surface stories and the ways in which they\u2019re constructed. \u2014J. Howard Rosier, New York Magazine\/Vulture A bracing and insightful look at the downsides of reducing everything to storytelling. . . A thoughtful and revelatory analysis of what\u2019s lost when story trumps all. \u2014Publishers Weekly For writers, readers, and citizens of the story-addled world. \u2014Emily Temple, Lit Hub A rhapsody to the partial suspension of disbelief that allows us to immerse ourselves in novels, but simultaneously and most crucially, a brilliant intervention against the complete suspension of disbelief that allows a citizenry to succumb to conspiracy theories, false-flag narratives, authoritarian fictions. An eloquent and triumphant culmination of Peter Brooks\u2019s lifelong inquiry into the aesthetic and ethical intersection of literature, psychoanalysis, law, and politics. Impossibly good. \u2014David Shields Stories are everywhere\u2014shaping us, shocking us, showing us what really happened (or making it up). Peter Brooks invites us to step to one side of our over-storied surroundings to think about all the ways they work. . . . In the process, he tells a gripping tale of his own. \u2014Rachel Bowlby This is an amazing book, crossing back and forth between literature and politics, illuminating each side by the other. It is written without fuss, continually evocative and surprising. \u2014Richard Sennett ","author_name":"PhilosophyPodcasts.Org","author_url":"http:\/\/sites.libsyn.com\/420896\/site","html":"