Personalism and the politics of culture : readings in literature and religion from the New Testament to the poetry of Northern Ireland
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Personalism and the politics of culture : readings in literature and religion from the New Testament to the poetry of Northern Ireland
Macmillan, 1996
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Description
This book deals with interrelationships between literature and religion to examine the idea of the person in relation to the politics of culture. Throughout, Patrick Grant maintains that ideology separates value from fact, spirit from matter, and this separation depersonalises. In a series of chapters dealing with body, city, others, freedom, and transgression, and through a selection of texts from the New Testament to the Northern Irish poets, he shows how literature, spirituality, and postmodern culture might jointly liberate persons in a society committed to democratic process and socialist values.
Table of Contents
Preface - Introduction: Culture, Bodies, and the Political Imaginary -Perfect Bodies: The Resurrection Teachings of the New Testament - Being Civilized: Vergil's Aeneid and the Book of Revelation - Seeing Someone Else: The Person as Object from Donne to Beckett - Freedom: Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor and Berdyaev's The Destiny of Man - Violence and Transgression: Poetry and Politics in Northern Ireland - Conclusion - Epilogue: A Footnote to Three Studies on the Person - Notes - Index
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