This innovative collection brings together experts from a range of fields including literature, psychology, philosophy, education, and medicine to explore the dangers of narrative and the recuperative possibilities of a narrative hermeneutics. Timely, and wide-ranging in scope, this book will be of great value to scholars and practitioners who want to understand why stories are so pervasive in a 'post-truth' era and how they may yet spark our political imagination.

Sujatha Fernandes, author of Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling (Oxford, 2017)

This is a necessary book for these times. Amid darkness, suspicion, and cold estrangement come searchers to shed light on our shipwreck. These essays clear an intellectually rigorous path from post-truth to reciprocal solicitude for the Other. Authentic dialogue and relation are again within reach.

Rita Charon, author of Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness

We human beings are hopelessly hermeneutical beings. We can't help but make up stories-be they 'true' or 'false' or somewhere in between-to make sense of our lives, ourselves, our worlds. This volume, an impressive collection of solid and wide-ranging scholarship, constitutes a searching, sorely-needed meditation on the role of the narrative turn itself in both contributing to-and countering-the emergence of our so-called 'post-truth' age. It's a book which narrativists in every field, not to mention politicians of every stripe, should take seriously indeed.

William L. Randall, author of The Narrative Complexity of Ordinary Life: Tales from the Coffee Shop