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" Trigger-Narratives: A Perspective on Radical Political Transformations "
Sarit Larry
Kearney, Richard
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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Record Number
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803853
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Doc. No
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TL48659
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Call number
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1769837753; 10025178
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Main Entry
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Sheridan, Debi
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Title & Author
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Trigger-Narratives: A Perspective on Radical Political Transformations\ Sarit LarryKearney, Richard
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College
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Boston College
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Date
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2016
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Ph.D.
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field of study
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Philosophy
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2016
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Page No
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222
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Committee members: Manoussakis, John P.; Rasmussen, David M.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-51997-5
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Abstract
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This work addresses an important phenomenon in the contemporary philosophy of narrative and coins it as a term. Trigger-narratives denote myth-like stories that ignite certain mass social participation. Juxtapose to five well-established philosophical concepts of narrative this work demonstrates that while trigger-narratives share formal characteristics with all, they fail to be meaningfully and comprehensively subsumed under any. I use three protagonists as comparative case studies to illustrate trigger-narratives: Rosa Parks (US), Mouhammed Bouazizi (Tunisia) and Daphne Leef (Israel). The sociopolitical reaction to trigger-narratives exceeds them in content and in size. Yet, these protagonists continue to serve as catalysts and perennial symbols of the transformative events that follow their protesting acts. Trigger-narratives are not lived-narratives. They do not disclose what Arendt’s refers to as a unique <i>who</i> or MacIntyre’s unity of a human life. They do not answer the ownmost rhythm of Heidegger’s Being-toward-death or operate like Ricoeur’s or Kearney’s concepts of testimony. The protagonist perspective is rarely heard or seriously considered. Unlike historical narratives trigger-narratives are not the product of research. They form quickly and in their aftermath they resist change. Trigger-narrative protagonists draw their power from being portrayed as context-less, weak and uncalculated while historical leaders draw power from descriptions of authority, skill, and deliberation. Trigger-narratives have the effect and/or aspiration of metanarratives. They aim at a new order. However, they spring from articulated singular accounts rather than form an all-encompassing tacit sub-current narrative. Adding a sixth sociological concept of narrative I refer to issue-narratives. Trigger-narratives congeal around an issue. But they instill a far greater expectation for change. I conclude that: 1. trigger narratives are closest to fiction 2. They operate through a condensation of Ricoeur’s mimetic cycle configuring and refiguring reality in a rapid rotation that ossifies them into a mobilizing form, and that 3. Interpreting trigger-narratives through the perspective of world-creating myths illuminates many of their typical characteristics in a unifying, comprehensive manner. The study points to two new research directions: 1. trigger-narratives’ aftermath operations (specifically rituals and newly erected institutions).2. Further interdisciplinary cooperation between contemporary political philosophy of narrative and the sociological methodology of frame-analysis.
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Subject
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Philosophy
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Descriptor
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Philosophy, religion and theology;Arab uprisings;Myth;Narrative;Revolution;Social movements;Trigger narrative
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Kearney, Richard
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PhilosophyBoston College
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