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reading as belief language writing poetics faith
p reading as belief advances the provocative idea that the disruptive techniques of recent innovative poetry require readers to become believers occupying the same philosophical ground as the religious faithful . pairing the poets charles bernstein and bruce andrews with john calvin and jonathan edwards and drawing on the work of diverse thinkers such as wendy brown ludwig wittgenstein walter benjamin stanley cavell william james and gilles deleuze this book demonstrates how belief faith and language attuned critical inquiry share an epistemology one concerned with making meaning in the absence of certainty . bettridge argues that recognizing such common ground helps overcome the cultural and philosophical impasse following the collapse of modernitys central narratives about language and liberal subjectivity .
hardcover palgrave macmillan 2009 isbn13 9780230619425 isbn10 0230619428
abridged n isbn 13 9780230619425 number in series 1 number of pages 192 publisher palgrave macmillan release date 1256601600000