Narrative, religion and science: fundamentalism versus irony, 1700–1999
Auteur :
Prickett, Stephen
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521811361
Date de publication :
28 mars 2002
Dimensions :
23,6 x 15,6 x 2,3 cm
Poids :
600 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
An increasing number of contemporary scientists, philosophers and theologians downplay their professional authority and describe their work as simply 'telling stories about the world'. Yet story telling is neither innocent nor empty-handed. Register, rhetoric and imagery are manipulative, and irony emerges as the natural mode of our modern fragmented culture.