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  • Cognitive matrices in folktales and contemporary practices of deliberation : from the utilitarian mindset of Mojca Pokrajculja to the incomprehensible laughter of the Bean
    Horvat, Marjan, 1978-
    The aim of the paper is to illuminate how folktales, with their specific conceptualization of universal dilemmas, reflect culture-bound patterns of decision-making in relation to the contemporary ... socio-political discourse in a given society. In this respect, I perceive folktales firstly as a reflection of embedded cognitive/cultural matrices that determine »cognitive-instrumental rationality«, linked to traditions and cultural norms (Jürgen Habermas). I explore these matrices using a new methodological approach which connects the sociological theory of fairy tales, deliberative democracy and cognitive history. This approach is then applied to the analysis of the conceptualization of dilemmas in three Slovenian folktales (Mojca Pokrajculja, The Ant and the Lazy Cricket, The Bean, the Straw, and the Coal). The analysis asserts correlations between traditionally and culturally conditioned forms of decision-making, and contemporary practices of decision-making / deliberation, thus shedding light on the specifics of national epistemology from a comparative and historicist perspective.
    Vir: Acta Histriae. - ISSN 1318-0185 (Letn. 30, št. 3, 2022, str. 603-626)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 2022
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 143413251

vir: Acta Histriae. - ISSN 1318-0185 (Letn. 30, št. 3, 2022, str. 603-626)

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