The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down by Jonathan Gottschall

The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down

Jonathan Gottschall

272 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Description

"In 2012, Jonathan Gottschall received a strange letter from DARPA, the research and development arm of the United States Department of Defense. What could a military research program possibly want with a literary critic? The letter was an invitat...

Read more

Community Reviews Summary of 12 reviews

Moods

informative 100%
reflective 60%
adventurous 20%
challenging 20%
hopeful 20%
inspiring 20%

Pace

medium 83%
fast 16%

Average rating

3.75

See all reviews...

Content Warnings

This book doesn't have any content warnings yet!

If you're the author of this book and want to add author-approved content warnings, please email us at [email protected] to request the content warning form.