Political Narratosophy

From Theory of Narration to Politics of Imagination

Senka Anastasova

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000915891
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political History & Theory
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Political Narratosophy offers a critically subversive rethinking of the political and philosophical significance of narrative, and why feminist epistemology and feminist social theory matters for the meaning of the 'self' and narrativity.

Through a re-examination of the notions of democracy and emancipation, Senka Anastasova coins the term 'political narratosophy', a unique interpretation of the philosophy of narrative, identification, and disidentification, developed in conversation with philosophers Jacques Rancière, Nancy Fraser, and Paul Ricoeur. Utilizing the author's own identity as a feminist philosopher has lived in socialist Yugoslavia, post-Yugoslavia, and Macedonia (now North Macedonia), Anastasova explores the fluctuating and disappearing borders around which identity is situated in a country that no longer exists. She expertly reveals how the subject finds, makes and unmakes itself through narrativity, politics, and imagination.

Political Narratosophy is an important intervention in political philosophy and a welcome contribution to the historiography on female authors who lived through twentieth century communism and its aftermath. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in the fields of political theory, philosophy, women's studies, international relations, identity studies, (comparative) literary studies, and aesthetics studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Toward the Epistemology of Political Narratosophy and Narratofemosophy. From Theory of Narration to Politics of Imagination. Ricoeur, Fraser, Rancière (Feminist Interpretations)
• 1 Political Narratosophy and Narrative – in – Progress: Life as Narrative/ Narrative Identity Thinking Between Discourse Theories and Political Narratosophy
• 2 Politics of Narrative Structures as Chiasmus between Fiction and History: Overlapping the Methodology, Interweaving of Fiction, Historiography, Metahistory
• 3 From Politics of Aesthetics to the Social of Artistic Practices: In Women’s Writings from East Germany and Former/Post-Yugoslavia
• Conclusion Political and the ‘Political’ Beyond the Narratosophy
• References
• Index