Poetics of Critique breaks new ground in its pursuit of a formal and critical language of interdisciplinarity. The 'founding' disciplines within the humanities - theology, philosophy, and literature - are brought together here in a shared space, but one that reconstitutes the very nature of each and any discipline. In this space, critique and imagination consciously merge, giving way to a new kind of thinking, a new kind of consciousness, a new kind of textuality. Readings alternate between...
Hass (religious studies, U. of Stirling, Britain) seeks a formal and critical language of interdisciplinarity within the humanitiestheology, philosophy, and literature. He demonstrates his approach by analyzing the works of John (the gospeleer), Bulgakov, Kant, Goethe, Nietzsche, Kundera, Gadamer, and Sophocles. He does not provide a subject index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR