Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood

Relating Narrativesis a major new work by the philosopher and feminist thinker Adriana Cavarero. First published in Italian to widespread acclaim, the book presents a fascinating and challenging new account of the relationship between selfhood and narration. Drawing on a diverse array of thinkers from both the philosophical and the literary tradition--from Sophocles and Homer to Hannah Arendt, Karen Blixen, Walter Benjamin and Borges--Cavarero's theory of the "narratable self" shows how narrative models in philosophy and literature can open new ways of thinking about the formation of human identities. By showing how each human being has a unique story, Cavarero inaugurates an important shift in how we think about subjectivity and identity.