History Making History: The New Historicism in American Religious Thought - Couverture rigide

Dean, William

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0887068928 ISBN 13 : 9780887068928

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1988

Synopsis

This book recognizes that the postmodern "new historicism" leads to a value-neutral relativism and leaves theology with an impossible choice. Dean argues that the postmodern challenge is incoherent and ineffective unless it is reinterpreted in terms of its classical American roots. Before offering a third option, Dean defends the neopragmatism of Richard Rorty, Richard Bernstein, Nelson Goodman, Hilary Putnam, Cornel West, and Jeffrey Stout; the deconstructivism of Jacques Derrida and Mark Taylor; and the recent theology of Gordon Kaufman. The third option, opening up a new possibility for American theology, is the radical empiricism of William James and John Dewey and the precedent of the "Chicago School."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

William Dean is Professor of Religion at Gustavus Adolphus College and author of American Religious Empiricism, also published by SUNY Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0887068928
• ISBN 13: 9780887068928
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 190
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible