In defence of narrative exceptionalism

Thanks to Carol Thomas for transforming a sporadic couple of articles into something worth calling a debate. Thomas correctly observes the difference between Paul Atkinson’s ‘methodology first insistence’ and my understanding that ‘ethics comes first’. What I mean by ethics is expanded in my most recent book (Frank 2004). I would now argue that an ethics-first position is better understood as narrative-first, because anyone’s sense of what...