Prolepsis

Ignacio Bresco de Brescó de Luna

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_142-1

Prolepsis

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Prolepsis is an old and multifaceted term that could not be more significant in relation to the possible. From its original epicurean meaning, referring to the criteria of truth whereby we make judgments about the reality we perceive, prolepsis is generally associated with the notion of anticipation. In argumentation studies, prolepsis alludes to the anticipation of a possible counter-argument to one’s discourse in order to answer it in advance, while in narratology it refers to the narrative figure of flashforward or the anticipation of future events in a storyline. After providing some definitions of prolepsis, along with an historical contextualization of this term, this chapter delves into some current lines of research based on this concept with a particular focus on the sociocultural studies on developmental psychology and collective memory. The concluding discussion reflects on the theoretical significance of prolepsis in relation to the study of the possible in a technology-driven world, marked by acceleration of time and uncertainty.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible
Editors	Vlad P. Glăveanu
Number of pages	8
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date	2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_142-1
Publication status	Published - 2020

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prolepsis, anticipation, future orientation, development, sociocultural psychology, collective memory

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