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Narrative, Religion and Science Fundamentalism Versus Irony, 1700-1999
by Prickett, Stephen
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
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- ISBN 13
- 9780521009836
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Cambridge Univ Pr, 2002. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Book. 281 pp. Clean nicely bound copy. Unmarked text. light general edgewear. Makes a very nice copy and priced accordingly with secure packaging! 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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- Title
- Narrative, Religion and Science Fundamentalism Versus Irony, 1700-1999
- Author
- Prickett, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0521009839
- ISBN 13
- 9780521009836
- Publisher
- Cambridge Univ Pr
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 2002
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