Poetry and apocalypse
William Franke · 2009
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"In Poetry and Apocalypse, Franke seeks to find the premises for dialogue between cultures, especially religious fundamentalisms - including Islamic fundamentalism - and modern Western secularism. He argues that in order to be genuinely open, dialogue needs to accept possibilities such as religious apocalypse in ways that can be best understood through the experience of poetry. Franke reads Christian epic and prophetic tradition as a secularization of religious revelation that preserves an understanding of the essentially apocalyptic character of truth and its disclosure in history. The usually neglected negative theology that undergirds this apocalyptic tradition provides the key to a radically new view of apocalypse as at once religious and poetic."--BOOK JACKET.
Book details
- Year
- 2009
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 211
- ISBN
- 9780804759106
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