ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some closing thoughts covered in the previous chapters of this book. Narrative is the quintessential form of human sense-making that straddles all of the traditional dichotomies. Stories can be told in a multitude of ways: in pictures and through visual media, in dance and mime forms, through musical notes, and, finally, in words. Studying narrative in an enactivist framework allows one to transcend the previous formalisms and dichotomies of cognitivism or structuralism and bring up together a set of questions as well as relevant methodologies from traditionally humanistic areas of research on narrative such as pragmatics, phenomenological inquiry, and even forms of traditional criticism. Enactivism as a framework for studying cognition, provides both the support and the agenda to resist precisely this kind of temptation. Narrative, then, a multifaceted way of thought, evident both in and outside of verbal expression, provides the ideal substrate for studying the human mind in interaction with other minds.
