Methodological issues in War and Peace: causation, agency and refiguration
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causality, agency, refiguration, Tolstoy, War and PeaceAbstract
Tolstoy’s magnum opus, War and Peace transcends the literary scope and elicit philosophic and methodological questions. The aim here is to take it as a starting point to discuss subjects as causality, agency and contemporary issues related to language and writing, in the methodology of history and social sciences. In a first part, it attempts to show how the discussion of Napoleonic invasion’s causes, elaborated by Tolstoy in War and Peace , brings elements that prefigure the explanation versus understanding debate in analytic philosophy from the mid-twentieth century. The following discusses, inspired by Tolstoy’s compositional practices and Ricoeur’s idea of time-narrative circle, the methodological fruitfulness of narrative refiguration to interpret art, society and history relationships.Downloads
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