The Narrative Instinct. The Anthropological Difference in the Philological Framework
The Narrative Instinct. The Anthropological Difference in the Philological Framework

Summary/Abstract: Discussing more and more present in the ethology trend of anthropomorphization, the article attempts at synthetic image of the anthropological difference, i.e. the difference identifying the human life form. The reconstruction of Michael Tomasello.s cooperative structure of human communication as a condition for the emergence of the infrastructure of shared intentionality (enabling the possession of the theory of mind, i.e. ability to perceive the world on multiple levels from the perspective of the others) leads to posing the question of the human being from the philological point of view: being-in-the-world is analysed in this respect as being-on-the-stories. The thesis that it is precisely fabulation (and not only naming) which is a natural human way of entering an exchange with oneself, the others and the world, is supported by the statement of the evolutionary benefits such as simulational and immunological dimension of a story.

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