Political Narratosophy

<p>Political Narratosophy offers a critically subversive rethinking of the political and philosophical significance of narrative and why feminist epistemology and feminist social theory matters for the meaning of the ‘self’ and narrativity.</p><p>Through a re-examination of the notions of democracy and emancipation Senka Anastasova coins the term ‘political narratosophy’ a unique interpretation of the philosophy of narrative identification and disidentification developed in conversation with philosophers Jacques Rancière Nancy Fraser and Paul Ricoeur. Utilizing the author’s own identity as a feminist philosopher has lived in socialist Yugoslavia post-Yugoslavia and Macedonia (now North Macedonia) Anastasova explores the fluctuating and disappearing borders around which identity is situated in a country that no longer exists. She expertly reveals how the subject finds makes and unmakes itself through narrativity politics and imagination.</p><p><i>Political Narratosophy</i> is an important intervention in political philosophy and a welcome contribution to the historiography on female authors who lived through twentieth century communism and its aftermath. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in the fields of political theory philosophy women’s studies international relations identity studies (comparative) literary studies and aesthetics studies.</p>