Policy and the Narrative of the “Third Way”
Policy and the Narrative of the “Third Way”

Summary/Abstract: A narrative is an intelligibility model of high generality that human reason imposes to the real in order to give it form and meaning. Otherwise, in our minds would be just a chaos of existential observations that can neither increase the knowledge, nor guide the action. Like any other derivation (ideology, theory, justifying discourse etc.), in order to survive, a narrative will have to pass the test of social utility. In other words it has to cope with a pragmatic criterion. This article will sociologically examine the vision of the third way toward a Good Society. Is this way an ideological synthesis that obviates Right’ and Left’ weaknesses? Is it rather an ideal, an ethical position? What brings it new and better in terms of social utility?

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