Schapp’s entanglement in stories

Abstract

This paper demonstrates some of the fundamental positions taken by the so-called ?philosophy of stories?, set forth by Wilhelm Schapp, in the middle of the 20th century. Our research accentuates the first Schapp?s study regarding the philosophy of stories (The Entanglement in Stories), with the aim of showcasing propinquity of such project with other disciplines and authors, as well as to draw attention to the possibility of crystallizing a hopefully potent ?narrative method?. The implementation of the aforementioned method would potentially lead to expounding the idea of the intrinsically narrative dimension of any kind of language event. Thus formulated narrative method also exhibits the fact that language incessantly produces the pure multiplicity of contingent stories. Another potential merit of this approach is the prospect of understanding language in different, more authentic terms: we would insist on putting forward its self-producing and self-effacing character, rather than persisting on the usual analyses which often emphasize the understanding of language as an ?expression of thought?, or as an ?information conveyor?.