In the last 30 years, postmodernism has emerged as a significant cultural, political and intellectual force that has left unyielding critiques of architecture, selfhood, knowledge formation, ethics, history, economics and politics in its wake.

Postmodernism (Routledge Critical Concepts)

Literature & Fiction

Taylor, Victor E.

Winquist, Charles E.

History & Criticism

Taylor & Francis Books Ltd

Para/Inquiry represents the next generation of postmodern studies. Focusing on cultural studies religion, and literature, Victor E. Taylor provides us with a fresh look at the history and main themes of postmodernism, both in style and content.Central to the book is the status of the sacred in postmodern times. Taylor explores the sacred images in art, culture and literature. We see that the concept of the sacred is uniquely singular and resistant to an easy assimilation into artistic, cultural or narrative forms. Anyone wishing to gain a new and exciting understanding of postmodernism, will read this book with great pleasure.

Para/Inquiry

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Routledge

Religion after Postmodernism: Retheorizing Myth and Literature (Studies in Religion and Culture)

In this critical examination of the role of the imagination in the modern and postmodern periods, Victor E. Taylor looks at the 'fable' as a narrative form that addresses the ultimate questions of how to live and why. He assesses various literary theories and styles in the wake of postmodernism to reveal the ways in which fable-style narrative can be a meaningful genre for addressing traditional and post-traditional religious, ethical, and epistemological concerns. In the process, Taylor draws on key figures across the humanities--from Mircea Eliade and Claude Lévi-Strauss, Paul Ricoeur and Slavoj Zizek, to Leo Tolstoy and Franz Kafka.Placing an emphasis on rethinking the importance of critical theory in religious studies, the author argues that a new, more demanding formulation of the concept of possibility allows for a realignment of the philosophical, mythological, and literary imaginations. By returning to the history of philosophy, myth studies, and modern literature, Taylor makes a renewed case for the significance of a distinctive formulation of religious theory as a desire for thinking. Religion after Postmodernism calls for a reconsideration of "theory as thinking" for the future of philosophy, religious studies, and literature.

University of Virginia Press

In this critical examination of the role of the imagination in the modern and postmodern periods, Victor E. Taylor looks at the 'fable' as a narrative form that addresses the ultimate questions of how to live and why. He assesses various literary theories and styles in the wake of postmodernism to reveal the ways in which fable-style narrative can be a meaningful genre for addressing traditional and post-traditional religious, ethical, and epistemological concerns. In the process, Taylor draws on key figures across the humanities--from Mircea Eliade and Claude Lévi-Strauss, Paul Ricoeur and Slavoj Zizek, to Leo Tolstoy and Franz Kafka.
Placing an emphasis on rethinking the importance of critical theory in religious studies, the author argues that a new, more demanding formulation of the concept of possibility allows for a realignment of the philosophical, mythological, and literary imaginations. By returning to the history of philosophy, myth studies, and modern literature, Taylor makes a renewed case for the significance of a distinctive formulation of religious theory as a desire for thinking. Religion after Postmodernism calls for a reconsideration of "theory as thinking" for the future of philosophy, religious studies, and literature.

Para/Inquiry: Postmodern Religion and Culture

The Religious Pray, The Profane Swear: Robert Loudon Drummond’s Survival of Libby and Salisbury Prisons During the American Civil War chronicles the wartime experiences of a profoundly religious man who suffered and survived two of the most notoriously inhumane Confederate prisons. The book contains a biography of Robert L. Drummond that situates his religious perspective in the context of the Presbyterian Church’s internal debate over the issue of slavery. Additional material addresses, the religious dimensions of slavery at the time of the Civil War and the theological conflicts between Northern and Southern Christian communities regarding the biblical status of slavery in nineteenth century American society.

The Religious Pray, The Profane Swear: Robert Loudon Drummond’s Survival of Libby and Salisbury Prisons During the American Civil War

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

PenMark Press

Conversations in Cultural Rhetoric and Composition Studies is a collection of in-depth interviews featuring leading figures from across the composition and rhetoric field. With topics ranging from issues of cultural, racial, and ethnic identity to the history of composition and rhetoric in higher education, these conversations define cutting-edge concepts in a postmodern intellectual context. Developed for teachers and students in composition and rhetoric, this volume provides authoritative commentary on the major issues in writing studies, cultural analysis, and rhetoric. Conversations in Cultural Rhetoric and Composition Studies represents a multiform approach to discussing the past, present, and future of a dynamic field of study.

Conversations in Cultural Rhetoric and Composition Studies

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

The Davies Group, Publishers

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was one of the most influential humanistic thinkers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Beginning in the late 1960s, his most widely recognized concept of “deconstruction,” inspired by Nietzschean and Heideggerian philosophies, transformed the fields of continental philosophy, theology, postcolonial/decolonial theory, and literary studies, and ushered in more generally the current “age of theory” in the arts and humanities. The essays and interviews assembled in Divisible Derridas focus on key terms and concepts from Derrida’s philosophical “archive” and their relevance to current conversations across disciplines. Derrida’s enormous and continuing influence in the humanities is a major area of scholarship, and this volume provides a critical framework for understanding the history, applicability, and dynamism of major Derridean concepts, especially those that have informed new fields of inquiry. Moreover, the Derridean philosophical “archive” is a divisible, multiple, and living space. Scholars from across the humanities and in new fields of inquiry are finding new meaning in and relevance of Derrida’s thought and recently available posthumous work. Divisible Derridas’ featured essays by and interviews are by leading scholars who have worked closely with Derridean texts. Representing a wide range of interests, these contributors provide a historical context for major concepts and themes in Derrida’s work as well possible new trajectories of this established archive and newly available work in the future. Divisible Derridas will be of interest to scholars from many areas of humanistic research as well as advanced graduate students working on interdisciplinary research.

Divisible Derridas (Emergence)

Nichols, Stephen G.

This book is an interdisciplinary study of the cultural representations of Jesus in the context of contemporary religious theory and continental philosophy. It looks at Jesus in view of an updated Derridean hauntology and spectrality, with an emphasis on the inherent plasticity of the Christian heritage. While the work engages with the recent Jesus-centered writings of Slavoj Žižek, François Laruelle, and Giorgio Agamben, it places a greater and much needed emphasis on the philosophical, theological, and cultural links between a plastic, hauntological Christian heritage and Jesus’s historically evolving plural subjectivity, with the latter explored in texts of popular culture. It is a multidisciplinary study of Jesus, as well as a dynamic Christian heritage that simultaneously constructs and deconstructs Jesus’s philosophical, political, and cultural centrality.

Christianity, Plasticity, and Spectral Heritages (Radical Theologies and Philosophies)

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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Postmodernism (Routledge Critical Concepts)

Para/Inquiry

Religion after Postmodernism: Retheorizing Myth and Literature (Studies in Religion and Culture)

Religion after Postmodernism: Retheorizing Myth and Literature (Studies in Religion and Culture)

Para/Inquiry: Postmodern Religion and Culture

Para/Inquiry: Postmodern Religion and Culture

The Religious Pray, The Profane Swear: Robert Loudon Drummond’s Survival of Libby and Salisbury Prisons During the American Civil War

Conversations in Cultural Rhetoric and Composition Studies

Divisible Derridas (Emergence)

Christianity, Plasticity, and Spectral Heritages (Radical Theologies and Philosophies)