Literature Against Fundamentalism
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 July 2024
- ISBN 9780198919582
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages144 pages
- Size 196x130x10 mm
- Weight 164 g
- Language English 521
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Short description:
Tabish Khair makes the provocative argument that literature is an agnostic mode of thinking about language, reality, and their relationship to each other that can be an antidote to fundamentalism. The book concludes with an impassioned 'call to literature' as a means of remedying the current crisis in the humanities.
MoreLong description:
Acclaimed novelist and academic Tabish Khair argues that literature as a distinct mode of thinking can counteract fundamentalism.
Literature is a mode of thinking, stories being one of the oldest thinking 'devices' known to humankind. The ways in which literature enables us to think are distinctive and necessary, because of the relationships between its material ('language') and its subject matter ('reality'). Although present in oral literature, these relationships are exposed in their full complexity with the rise of literature as a distinct form of writing. Literature Against Fundamentalism argues that literature enables us to engage with reality in language and language in reality, where both are mutually constitutive, constantly changing, and partly elusive.
Tabish Khair defines this mode of engagement as essentially an agnostic one, resistant to simple dogma. Hence, literature can provide an antidote to fundamentalism. Khair argues that reading literature as literature--and not just as material for aesthetic, sociological, political, and other theoretical discourses--is essential for humanity. In the process, he offers a radical re-definition of literature, an illuminating engagement with religion and fundamentalism, a revaluation of the relationship between the sciences and humanities, and, finally, a call to literature as in 'a call to arms'.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction: What Is in a Word?
What Literature Does Not Say
Literature, Gaps, and Historicity
Literature, Gaps, and Ahistoricity
Language, Literature, and the Book
Why 'God' and Literature are a Problem for Fundamentalism
Conclusion: A Call to Literature
Bibliography
Index
