End of Story

End of StoryArgues that the academy's obsession with language, and in particular with narrative, has become a sort of disease. 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

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