Deep Symbols: Their Postmodern Effacement and Reclamation - Brossura

Farley, Edward

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1563381850 ISBN 13: 9781563381850

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 1996

Riassunto

This is an absorbing and exceptionally perceptive account of how deep symbols or words of power, which tend to be a culture's normative language, have undergone diminishment in contemporary postmodern society. Edward Farley explains that such diminishment does not necessarily imply the demise of these symbols since traces of them remain, inviting their rethinking.
The book begins by spelling out the character and prospect of deep symbols in postmodern society. Then follow five chapters, each dealing with a particular deep symbol: tradition, obligation (duty), reality, law, and hope. A concluding chapter shows the structural entanglement of these symbols with each other and their relation to the sacred and the interhuman.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Edward Farley is Professor of Theology at Vanderbilt University and the author of many books, including Good and Evil: Interpreting a Human Condition.

Edward Farley is Professor of Theology at Vanderbilt University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury T & T Clark
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1563381850
• ISBN 13: 9781563381850
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 145
• Contatto del produttore: EDITIONS GALLIMARD; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia