 | Terence Ball - 1977 - 293 trang
...theorist — like Hegel's philosopher — reflects upon and finds meaning in action only retrospectively: "Action reveals itself fully only to the story-teller, that is, to the backward glance of the historian . . ."17 For Arendt, as for Thucydides (see Euben's essay), the theorist's task is a historical one;... | |
 | Jennifer Ring - 1997 - 388 trang
...whether it involves many or few actors, its full meaning can reveal itself only when it has ended. . . . Action reveals itself fully only to the storyteller,...better what it was all about than the participants" (HC 192). Arendt's political actor initiates something in the world, but then must relinquish it to... | |
 | Steven Tudor - 2001 - 254 trang
...meaning emerges. Arendt says that the story of a person's life is not written by the person himself: Action reveals itself fully only to the storyteller,...better what it was all about than the participants .... What the storyteller narrates must necessarily be hidden from the actor himself.62 Though this... | |
 | James Carroll - 2002 - 774 trang
...choice and consequence has revealed itself. Or, as Hannah Arendt, with whom we began this book, put it, "Action reveals itself fully only to the storyteller,...always knows better what it was all about than the participants."1 For that reason, one comes to the end of a story like this purged of any feeling of... | |
 | Olli-Pekka Moisio, Juha Suoranta - 2006 - 267 trang
...all historical processes, appears only at their end, frequently when all the participants are dead. Action reveals itself fully only to the storyteller,...better what it was all about than the participants. (Arendt, 1958, p. 192) This means that in Arendtian terms a person is not able to tell his/her own... | |
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Action reveals itself fully only to the storyteller, that is, to the backward glance of the historian, who indeed always knows better what it was all about than the participants. 