Narrative, religion, and science: fundamentalism versus irony, 1700-1999
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, Stephen Prickett argues, literary criticism can (and should) be applied to all these field...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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, Stephen Prickett argues, literary criticism can (and should) be applied to all these fields. Such new-found modesty is not necessarily postmodernist scepticism towards all grand narratives, but it often conceals a widespread confusion and naïvety about what 'telling stories', 'description' or 'narrative', actually involves. While postmodernists define 'narrative' in opposition to the experimental 'knowledge' of science (Lyotard), some scientists insist that science is itself story-telling (Gould); certain philosophers and theologians even see all knowledge simply as stories created by language (Rorty; Cupitt). Yet story telling is neither innocent nor empty-handed. Prickett argues that since the eighteenth century there have been only two possible ways of understanding the world: the fundamentalist, and the ironic |
| Beschreibung: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (viii, 281 pages) |
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| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511613456 |
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| spelling | Prickett, Stephen 1939-2020 Verfasser (DE-588)131614339 aut Narrative, religion, and science fundamentalism versus irony, 1700-1999 Stephen Prickett Narrative, Religion & Science Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2002 1 online resource (viii, 281 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) Machine generated contents note: 1 Postmodernism, grand narratives and just-so stories -- Postmodernism and grand narratives -- Just-so stories -- Narrative and irony -- Language, culture and reality -- 2 Newton and Kissinger: Science as irony? -- Said, Kissinger and Newton -- Revolutions and paradigms -- Models of reality -- Ambiguity and irony -- 3 Learning to say 'I': Literature and subjectivity -- Interior and exterior worlds -- The idea of literature -- The ideal of the fragment -- Two kinds of truth? -- 4 Reconstructing religion: Fragmentation, typology -- and symbolism -- From religion to religions -- Religions of nature and of the heart -- Millenarian fragments and organic wholes -- The aesthetics of irony: Keble and Rossetti -- 5 The ache in the missing limb: Language, truth and -- presence -- Coleridge: The language of the Bible -- Newman: The physiognomy of development -- Polanyi: The origins of meaning -- Steiner, Derrida and Hart: Presence and absence -- 6 Twentieth-century fundamentalisms: Theology, truth -- and irony -- Rorty: Language and reality -- Postmodernism and poetic language: Religion as aesthetics -- Logos and logothete: Reading reality -- 7 Science and religion: Language, metaphor and -- consilience -- Etching with universal acid -- Language as change -- A rebirth of images -- The fabric of the universe -- Concluding conversational postscript: The tomb -- of Napoleon 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, Stephen Prickett argues, literary criticism can (and should) be applied to all these fields. Such new-found modesty is not necessarily postmodernist scepticism towards all grand narratives, but it often conceals a widespread confusion and naïvety about what 'telling stories', 'description' or 'narrative', actually involves. While postmodernists define 'narrative' in opposition to the experimental 'knowledge' of science (Lyotard), some scientists insist that science is itself story-telling (Gould); certain philosophers and theologians even see all knowledge simply as stories created by language (Rorty; Cupitt). Yet story telling is neither innocent nor empty-handed. Prickett argues that since the eighteenth century there have been only two possible ways of understanding the world: the fundamentalist, and the ironic Geschichte 1700-1999 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte Narration (Rhetoric) / History Literature and science Religion and literature Epik (DE-588)4015025-2 gnd rswk-swf Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd rswk-swf Naturwissenschaften Motiv (DE-588)4120791-9 gnd rswk-swf Narrativität (DE-588)4379691-6 gnd rswk-swf Theologie (DE-588)4059758-1 gnd rswk-swf Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 s Epik (DE-588)4015025-2 s Naturwissenschaften Motiv (DE-588)4120791-9 s Geschichte 1700-1999 z 1\p DE-604 Theologie (DE-588)4059758-1 s Narrativität (DE-588)4379691-6 s 2\p DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe 978-0-521-00983-6 Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe 978-0-521-81136-1 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511613456 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
| spellingShingle | Prickett, Stephen 1939-2020 Narrative, religion, and science fundamentalism versus irony, 1700-1999 Machine generated contents note: 1 Postmodernism, grand narratives and just-so stories -- Postmodernism and grand narratives -- Just-so stories -- Narrative and irony -- Language, culture and reality -- 2 Newton and Kissinger: Science as irony? -- Said, Kissinger and Newton -- Revolutions and paradigms -- Models of reality -- Ambiguity and irony -- 3 Learning to say 'I': Literature and subjectivity -- Interior and exterior worlds -- The idea of literature -- The ideal of the fragment -- Two kinds of truth? -- 4 Reconstructing religion: Fragmentation, typology -- and symbolism -- From religion to religions -- Religions of nature and of the heart -- Millenarian fragments and organic wholes -- The aesthetics of irony: Keble and Rossetti -- 5 The ache in the missing limb: Language, truth and -- presence -- Coleridge: The language of the Bible -- Newman: The physiognomy of development -- Polanyi: The origins of meaning -- Steiner, Derrida and Hart: Presence and absence -- 6 Twentieth-century fundamentalisms: Theology, truth -- and irony -- Rorty: Language and reality -- Postmodernism and poetic language: Religion as aesthetics -- Logos and logothete: Reading reality -- 7 Science and religion: Language, metaphor and -- consilience -- Etching with universal acid -- Language as change -- A rebirth of images -- The fabric of the universe -- Concluding conversational postscript: The tomb -- of Napoleon Geschichte Narration (Rhetoric) / History Literature and science Religion and literature Epik (DE-588)4015025-2 gnd Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd Naturwissenschaften Motiv (DE-588)4120791-9 gnd Narrativität (DE-588)4379691-6 gnd Theologie (DE-588)4059758-1 gnd |
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| title | Narrative, religion, and science fundamentalism versus irony, 1700-1999 |
| title_alt | Narrative, Religion & Science |
| title_auth | Narrative, religion, and science fundamentalism versus irony, 1700-1999 |
| title_exact_search | Narrative, religion, and science fundamentalism versus irony, 1700-1999 |
| title_full | Narrative, religion, and science fundamentalism versus irony, 1700-1999 Stephen Prickett |
| title_fullStr | Narrative, religion, and science fundamentalism versus irony, 1700-1999 Stephen Prickett |
| title_full_unstemmed | Narrative, religion, and science fundamentalism versus irony, 1700-1999 Stephen Prickett |
| title_short | Narrative, religion, and science |
| title_sort | narrative religion and science fundamentalism versus irony 1700 1999 |
| title_sub | fundamentalism versus irony, 1700-1999 |
| topic | Geschichte Narration (Rhetoric) / History Literature and science Religion and literature Epik (DE-588)4015025-2 gnd Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd Naturwissenschaften Motiv (DE-588)4120791-9 gnd Narrativität (DE-588)4379691-6 gnd Theologie (DE-588)4059758-1 gnd |
| topic_facet | Geschichte Narration (Rhetoric) / History Literature and science Religion and literature Epik Englisch Naturwissenschaften Motiv Narrativität Theologie |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511613456 |
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