He was also one of the key figures in the foundation of cultural studies in Britain, which turned critical skills honed on textual analysis to the examination of structures and forms of resistance apparent in everyday life.

Raymond Williams made a central contribution to the intellectual culture of the Left in the English-speaking world.

Book excerpt: The celebrated literary critic Raymond Williams, in his own words. This book was released on with total page 464 pages. Through a critical examination of the work of Donald MacKinnon and the eminent Christian thinker Rowan Williams, the book aims to show that there is a path for reconciling the claims of Christian orthodoxy and the experience of tragedy, one that is able to maintain a metaphysical foundation for both real transcendence and unfolding historicity, without denying either.īook Synopsis Politics and Letters by : Raymond Williamsĭownload or read book Politics and Letters written by Raymond Williams and published by Verso Books. This book aims to examine this debate, laying out the lines of disagreement and continuing tensions. But this raises the question: Why was the theme of tragedy still accepted and deployed throughout the history of Christianity nevertheless? Is this merely an accident or is there something more substantial at play? Can Christian theology take the tragic seriously? Must Christianity ultimately deny the tragic to be coherent, or might it be able to sustain its negativity? Some like George Steiner, David Bentley Hart, and John Milbank have doubts about such a coherency, but others think differently. This is apparent already in early Christianity amongst leading figures during the patristic age. Book excerpt: From the time of Plato's proposed expulsion of the poets, tragedy has repeatedly proposed a challenge to philosophical and theological certainties. This book was released on with total page 300 pages. Delport and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. Delportĭownload or read book On Tragedy and Transcendence written by Khegan M. Book Synopsis On Tragedy and Transcendence by : Khegan M.

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