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Becoming Sensible: Thoughts on Rafe McGregor's Narrative Justice

There is much to admire in Rafe McGregor's new book: its analytical clarity and precision, depth and systmaticity in argumentation, width of the material covered, sharpness of his vision, illuminative power of his examples. I share his concern for the future of aesthetic education within the dominant context of neoliberal imperative, and I am inspired by his dedication to invigorate the humanists’ battle for preservation of the practices we so deeply believe in. I agree with his overall intuition regarding the ethical dimension of narratives and I am equally convinced of their capacity to provide understanding, though less optimistic regarding their capacity to decrease our inhumanity. I take his dedication to establish a link between narrative works and political sphere praise-worthy and original, and I am certain he has opened new directions for aesthetic education by bringing it into interdisciplinary context. On the whole, I would greatly recommend his book, his research program and the methodology he is proposing. Against the background of such mutually shared assumptions about narrative and the power of stories, most of the concerns I articulate here are directed at the details of McGregor’s arguments, rather than at the spirit in which they are formulated or the view they are meant to support.

Rafe McGregor, narrative justice, aesthetic education

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