The relegation of art to an essentially minority activity and interest helps to protect us from any narrative understanding of ourselves.
Yet since such an understanding - narrative cannot be expelled without expelling life itself - it continually recurs within art. in the realistic novels of the 19th century,in the movies of the 20th century, in the half suppressed background plot line which lends coherence to the reading of each morning's newspaper.
Yet to think of a human life as a narrative entity is to think in a way alien to to the dominant individualistic
modes of modern culture.
Source: Alasdair McIntyre After Virtue
Yet since such an understanding - narrative cannot be expelled without expelling life itself - it continually recurs within art. in the realistic novels of the 19th century,in the movies of the 20th century, in the half suppressed background plot line which lends coherence to the reading of each morning's newspaper.
Yet to think of a human life as a narrative entity is to think in a way alien to to the dominant individualistic
modes of modern culture.
Source: Alasdair McIntyre After Virtue
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