Ethics of Storytelling
Book Description
In a world where stories shape our understanding of ourselves and others, how do we navigate the ethical complexities of narrative? Hanna Meretoja presents a thoughtful exploration of storytelling's profound moral dimensions, offering readers a sophisticated framework for understanding how narratives both expand and constrain our possibilities for growth and connection.
This comprehensive work examines the dual nature of storytelling, revealing how narratives can simultaneously empower and oppress, illuminate and obscure. Meretoja guides readers through six essential dimensions of narrative ethics, exploring how stories cultivate our sense of what's possible, deepen self-understanding, and enable genuine connection with others in their uniqueness. She demonstrates how narratives transform the shared spaces between people and develop our capacity to see from multiple perspectives.
Drawing from philosophy, psychology, literary studies, and cultural memory research, the book addresses our entanglement in historical violence while affirming our fundamental interdependence as storytelling beings. Meretoja argues that through dialogic storytelling, we discover who we are both individually and collectively, recognizing our vulnerability and mutual dependence.
For those seeking to understand how personal and cultural narratives shape consciousness and possibility, this work offers rigorous yet accessible insights into the ethical stakes of human storytelling. It provides tools for engaging more consciously with the stories that form us, challenging readers to consider how narrative practices can serve healing, understanding, and transformation.
Who Is This For?
📖 Reading Level: Medium (200-400 pages) (~10 hours)
📄 Length: 368 pages
What You'll Discover
- ✓ Transform your perception of reality
- ✓ Explore Social aspects
- ✓ Explore Psychological aspects
- ✓ Explore Narration (rhetoric)
- ✓ Explore Social perception in literature
- ✓ Cultivate deeper self-awareness
- ✓ Understand the nature of mind
- ✓ Explore Storytelling
