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Narrative, Religion and Science: Fundamentalism versus Irony, 1700-1999
Narrative Religion and Science Fundamentalism versus Irony 1700-1999 Author:Stephen Prickett 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 i... more »magery 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.« less