Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Arthur Dent, Screwtape and the mysteries of story-telling
- 1 Postmodernism, grand narratives and just-so stories
- 2 Newton and Kissinger: Science as irony?
- 3 Learning to say ‘I’: Literature and subjectivity
- 4 Reconstructing religion: Fragmentation, typology and symbolism
- 5 The ache in the missing limb: Language, truth and presence
- 6 Twentieth-century fundamentalisms: Theology, truth and irony
- 7 Science and religion: Language, metaphor and consilience
- Concluding conversational postscript: The tomb of Napoleon
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Arthur Dent, Screwtape and the mysteries of story-telling
- 1 Postmodernism, grand narratives and just-so stories
- 2 Newton and Kissinger: Science as irony?
- 3 Learning to say ‘I’: Literature and subjectivity
- 4 Reconstructing religion: Fragmentation, typology and symbolism
- 5 The ache in the missing limb: Language, truth and presence
- 6 Twentieth-century fundamentalisms: Theology, truth and irony
- 7 Science and religion: Language, metaphor and consilience
- Concluding conversational postscript: The tomb of Napoleon
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Narrative, Religion and ScienceFundamentalism versus Irony, 1700–1999, pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002