Political Narratosophy: From Theory of Narration to Politics of Imagination [Paperback]

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 Ranci?re, Nancy Fraser, and Paul Ricoeur. Utilizing the authors 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, womens studies, international relations, identity studies, (comparative) literary studies, and aesthetics studies.

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.

After a breathtaking look at the way that narrativity is thought about in critical western philosophy and feminism, using Ranci?re, Fraser, and Ricoeurs work in particular, Senka Anastasova subversively juxtaposes these concepts to critical theory and fel³.