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Personalism and the Politics of Culture

Readings in Literature and Religion from the New Testament to the Poetry of Northern Ireland

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  • © 1996

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  1. Patrick Grant
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Culture, Bodies, and the Political Imaginary

    • Patrick Grant
    Pages 1-23

  3. Perfect Bodies: The Resurrection Teachings of the New Testament

    • Patrick Grant
    Pages 24-46

  4. Being Civilised: Vergil’s Aeneid and the Book of Revelation

    • Patrick Grant
    Pages 47-75

  5. Seeing Someone Else: The Person as Object from Donne to Beckett

    • Patrick Grant
    Pages 76-102

  6. Freedom: Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor and Berdyaev’s The Destiny of Man

    • Patrick Grant
    Pages 103-131

  7. Violence and Transgression: Poetry and Politics in Northern Ireland

    • Patrick Grant
    Pages 132-170

  8. Conclusion

    • Patrick Grant
    Pages 171-179

  9. Epilogue: A Footnote to Three Studies on the Person

    • Patrick Grant
    Pages 180-185

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 186-211
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This book deals with interrelationships between literature and religion to examine the idea of the person in relation to the politics of culture. Throughout, Patrick Grant maintains that ideology separates value from fact, spirit from matter, and this separation depersonalises. In a series of chapters dealing with body, city, others, freedom, and transgression, and through a selection of texts from the New Testament to the Northern Irish poets, he shows how literature, spirituality, and postmodern culture might jointly liberate persons in a society committed to democratic process and socialist values.

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