LEADER 04547nam 22006732 450 001 9910782953603321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-107-12527-8 010 $a1-280-41955-5 010 $a0-511-17630-9 010 $a0-511-04222-1 010 $a0-511-15708-8 010 $a0-511-32952-0 010 $a0-511-61345-8 010 $a0-511-04513-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000005437 035 $a(EBL)202092 035 $a(OCoLC)475916706 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000208157 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11188770 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000208157 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10239609 035 $a(PQKB)10783901 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511613456 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC202092 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL202092 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10006835 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL41955 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000005437 100 $a20090914d2002|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNarrative, religion, and science $efundamentalism versus irony, 1700-1999 /$fStephen Prickett$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2002. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 281 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-00983-9 311 $a0-521-81136-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 264-273) and index. 327 $aMachine 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. 330 $aAn 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 nai?vety 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. 517 3 $aNarrative, Religion & Science 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric)$xHistory 606 $aLiterature and science 606 $aReligion and literature 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric)$xHistory. 615 0$aLiterature and science. 615 0$aReligion and literature. 676 $a808 700 $aPrickett$b Stephen$0449123 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782953603321 996 $aNarrative, religion, and science$93701501 997 $aUNINA