Narrative, Religion, and Science: Fundamentalism Versus Irony, 1700-1999 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521009836)

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.

Author: Stephen Prickett
ISBN-10: 0521009839
ISBN-13: 9780521009836
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/06/2002
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.16w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2002 pg. 464