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Deep Symbols : Their Postmodern Effacement and Reclamation.

"Here is an absorbing and exceptionally perceptive account of how deep symbols or words of power (which tend to be a culture's normaltive language) have undergone diminishment in a contemporary postmodern society. Edward Farley explains that such diminishment does not necessarily imply the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Farley, Edward
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010.
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  • PREFACE; 1. DEEP SYMBOLS: The Legacy; Deep Symbols as Words of Power; The Rise of the Postmodern; 2. DEEP SYMBOLS: Atrophy and Recovery; Deep Symbols in Atrophy; Deep Symbols and Religious Communities; 3. THE LAND OF FORGETFULNESS: Rethinking Tradition; Tradition as a Deep Symbol; Tradition in a Traditionless Society; Rethinking Tradition; 4. OBLIGATION: The Deep Symbol of Other Relation; Obligation in a Traditionless Culture; The Being of Obligation; Obligation beyond the Sphere of Relation; 5. FOR ONCE THEN SOMETHING: Confronting the Real; Intimations of the Real; Reality at Risk.
  • Religious Flights from the Real6. WRITTEN ON THE HEART: The Idea of the Law; The Idea of the Law; Law in Postmodern Society; The Fate of the Law in Postmodern Christendom; The Idea of the Law and the Gospel; 7. CROSSING OVER INTO CAMPGROUND: The Matter of Hope; The Bifurcation of Hope; The Primacy of Community; The Paradoxes of Individual Hope; The Resources of Individual Hope; The Transindividual Form of Hope; The Fate of Hope in Postmodern Society; The Fate of Hope in Religious Communities; 8. ENTANGLEMENTS; Matrix; Primordial Words; Human Condition Words; Sacred Words; NOTES; INDEX; A; B.
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