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Jonathan Gottschall teaches English at Washington and Jefferson College and is the author or editor of six books. His work has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, Nature, and Scientific American, among others.

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Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1972-09-20
Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA
Educación
State University of New York, Binghamton (English)
Ocupaciones
professor
Organizaciones
Washington and Jefferson College
Agente
Max Brockman
Biografía breve
Jonathan Gottschall (born September 20, 1972) is an American literary scholar specializing in literature and evolution. He teaches at Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania. He completed graduate work in English at State University of New York at Binghamton, where he worked under David Sloan Wilson. [from Wikipedia]

His research has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times, Scientific American, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Nature, Science, and on NPR. [from Professor in the Cage (2015)]

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A breezy, quick read. Very interesting chapters on the role of story in life. The last chapter about story in the future is really fascinating.
 
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dhenn31 | 36 reseñas más. | Jan 24, 2024 |
Very well done. I wouldn’t say I read it in a white-hot heat, but in this small volume Gottschall manages to pack in a lot: dreams, identity, online fantasy worlds, Wagner/Hitler and that most destructive of myths which resulted, the real nightmare quality of children at play. There was something mildly depressing about the whole enterprise, story as a concept reduced in parts to a balm we slather over ourselves in order to get through life. Story is something else for me, as I suspect it is with most writers. Story hums with life, especially when it comes unbidden to the writing mind, transporting the soul to someplace altogether bigger, realer, weightier than the shell which normally houses us and our day-to-day experiences. Definitely worth one’s time though, this book. Just don’t expect a paean to escapism.… (más)
 
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MichaelDavidMullins | 36 reseñas más. | Oct 17, 2023 |
Some interesting ideas and good bits. Parts are hard to read in the current climate, and other parts feel a bit outdated. I wrote quite a few notes and they ended with "I just want it to be different?" Not the discussion I want to have, I guess, so I'll leave the notes where they are.
 
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Kiramke | 36 reseñas más. | Jun 27, 2023 |
Useful read which explores the powerful link between our human nature and the necessity to create and use stories.
 
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d.v. | 36 reseñas más. | May 16, 2023 |

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