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The Creation of Chaos: William James and the Stylistic Making of a Disorderly World (Suny Series in Rhetoric and Theology) - Hardcover

Ruf, Frederick J.

 
9780791407011: The Creation of Chaos: William James and the Stylistic Making of a Disorderly World (Suny Series in Rhetoric and Theology)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0791407012 ISBN 13: 9780791407011
Verlag: STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK PR, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

This is the first book-length study of William James' style, arguing that the manner in which James writes The Principles of Psychology and The Varieties of Religious Experience serves to construct a chaotic world for his readers.

The book examines the uses of chaos in western literature and philosophy and reaches two conclusions: that chaos may be "utter confusion and disorder," but, paradoxically, that disorder is communicated through some particular order — in Joyce's term, all chaos is "chaosmos." Secondly, what is essential about chaos is what it does: nothing is inherently chaotic, rather chaos is used to contrast with or challenge something that is more structured or formed. Finally, the author presents an examination of the religious function of James' chaotic worldview as a disorientation which orients.

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Frederick J. Ruf is Assistant Professor in the Theology Department at Georgetown University.

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Verlag
STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1991
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0791407012
ISBN 13 
9780791407011
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
185
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