Narrative, Religion and Science: Fundamentalism Versus Irony, 1700-1999Cambridge University Press, 28 mars 2002 - 281 pages 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. |
Table des matières
POSTMODERNISM GRAND NARRATIVES AND JUSTSO STORIES | 14 |
JUSTSO STORIES | 23 |
NARRATIVE AND IRONY | 32 |
LANGUAGE CULTURE AND REALITY | 46 |
NEWTON AND KISSINGER SCIENCE AS IRONY? | 54 |
REVOLUTIONS AND PARADIGMS | 62 |
MODELS OF REALITY | 71 |
AMBIGUITY AND IRONY | 81 |
THE ACHE IN THE MISSING LIMB LANGUAGE TRUTH AND PRESENCE | 157 |
THE PHYSIOGNOMY OF DEVELOPMENT | 170 |
THE ORIGINS OF MEANING | 179 |
PRESENCE AND ABSENCE | 189 |
TWENTIETHCENTURY FUNDAMENTALISMS THEOLOGY TRUTH AND IRONY | 195 |
RELIGION AS AESTHETICS | 207 |
READING REALITY | 217 |
SCIENCE AND RELIGION LANGUAGE METAPHOR AND CONSILIENCE | 225 |
LEARNING TO SAY I LITERATURE AND SUBJECTIVITY | 94 |
THE IDEA OF LITERATURE | 107 |
THE IDEAL OF THE FRAGMENT | 114 |
TWO KINDS OF TRUTH? | 121 |
RECONSTRUCTING RELIGION FRAGMENTATION TYPOLOGY AND SYMBOLISM | 128 |
RELIGIONS OF NATURE AND OF THE HEART | 135 |
MILLENARIAN FRAGMENTS AND ORGANIC WHOLES | 141 |
KEBLE AND ROSSETTI | 148 |
LANGUAGE AS CHANGE | 233 |
A REBIRTH OF IMAGES | 239 |
THE FABRIC OF THE UNIVERSE | 247 |
THE TOMB OF NAPOLEON | 256 |
BIBLOGRAPHY | 264 |
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