The Project
Being-entangled-in-stories is conducted by Daniele Nuccilli at ÚFAR (Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies - Charles University, Prague) and is supported by the European Regional Development Fund project “MSCA Fellowships CZ – UK2” (reg. no.: CZ.02.01.01/00/22_010/0008115). This project aims to provide a systematic exposition of Schapp’s narrative phenomenology with special regard to two closely related concepts, the hermeneutic/ontological concept of being-entangled-in-stories and that of positive world. According to Schapp, human beings are constitutively beings-entangled-in-stories so that no action or thought is possible outside the entanglement. Entanglement means not only that the human beings are in the middle of many different stories but first and foremost that every subject is embedded in a cultural and historical context. This is what Schapp calls positive world. One of the main assumptions of this project is that this concept can offer an interpretive key to understand current socio-political phenomena, such as the Russo-Ukrainian war, especially considering how the political discourse supports the most controversial decisions of heads of state. This can be said for example of the strategic, ideological Putin’s reference to the Christianisation of Kievan Rus’ in 988 by Vladimir the Great as historical premise for the current Russian invasion of Ukraine. In this case we have to do not just with a rhetorical construction of the past, but with an out-and-out act providing the legitimation of one’s own political choices by means of a direct connection to the past. This is exactly what Schapp means when he speaks of positive world: the impossibility of stepping out of the great stories we receive at birth. Employing four different methodological approaches: (1) the historic philosophical approach, (2) the phenomenological approach, (3) the narrative approach and (4) the comparative approach; the project intend to offer an alternative model to the narrative paradigm for understanding how political narratives influence public sentiment in complex situations such as the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
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Outputs Research papers currently under review. |