Jonathan Gottschall
Né(e): September 20, 1972 – Washington, Pennsylvania, United States
Jonathan Gottschall is an American author and literary scholar who writes about storytelling, literature, and human behavior through the lens of evolution and psychology. His notable books include The Storytelling Animal and The Professor in the Cage, which helped bring scientific perspectives on narrative to a broad readership.
Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur
Jonathan Gottschall is a literary scholar and author whose career has been defined by an effort to put science and the humanities into the same conversation. Trained in English at the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he worked under biologist David Sloan Wilson, he emerged from graduate school dissatisfied with the relativism he encountered in literary studies. That dissatisfaction became an early turning point: he began asking whether stories, art, and reading could be studied with something closer to empirical rigor. Early projects involved coding folktales and other texts, and his first academic books argued for an evolutionary, evidence-seeking approach to literature. He later became a Distinguished Fellow in the English Department at Washington & Jefferson College. ((https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/contributors/jonathan-gottschall-phd?utm_source=openai))
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"Jonathan Gottschall is not only the deepest thinker about the powerful role of stories in our lives, but a lively and witty writer"
— Steven Pinker
"Jonathan Gottschall is a hell of a story teller himself"
— Paul Bloom
"Jonathan Gottschall takes a timely and fascinating but possibly forbidding subject ... and makes of it an extraordinary narrative"
— Terry Castle
"Jonathan Gottschall has written a gripping and thoughtful book on a neglected but urgent topic: the dark side of stories"
— Daniel H. Pink
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— David Eagleman
"Jonathan Gottschall shows us why dangerous stories spread so rapidly, and how they lead to division and distrust"
— Jonah Berger
"Jonathan Gottschall has written a wonderfully honest, entertaining, and insightful book about violence, manhood, courage"
— Sam Harris
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