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Narrative, Religion and Science: Fundamentalism versus Irony, 1700-1999

By Stephen Prickett

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0521811368, 9780521811361
Open Library ID
OL7755313M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1335755 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
291\291
Topic
Religion
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-03-27 12:22:23

Description

An increasing number of contemporary scientists, philosophers and theologians downplay their professional authority and describe their work as simply "telling stories about the world". If this is so, literary criticism can and should be applied to all these fields. Yet story telling is neither innocent nor empty-handed. Register, rhetoric, and imagery all manipulate in their own ways. Above all, irony emerges as the natural mode of our modern fragmented culture. Since the eighteenth century there have been only two possible ways of understanding the world--the fundamentalist and the ironic.

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