Flaubert Postsecular : Modernity Crossed Out Hardback
by Barbara Vinken
Part of the Cultural Memory in the Present series
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By his national affiliation and choice of genre, French novelist Gustave Flaubert can be considered emblematic of modernity.
This book showcases his specific and highly refined imaginary as at once unique and symptomatic of an era.
In particular, it contributes to the controversial discussion of modernity's relation to religion.
At a time when new religious fundamentalisms throughout the world are on the rise, this has only become a more pressing issue.
Through this single acclaimed author, we realize that modernity can only be understood in terms of its critical rewriting of religious dogma.
Strikingly, already in Flaubert, this rewriting emerges in conjunction with questions of the Orient and Orientalism.
Flaubert's Orient is an Other that is always already within Western society.
By highlighting the complexity of the relation between religion, modernity, and the Oriental, Barbara Vinken's discussion of these issues goes beyond simple binaries.
Her Flaubert Postsecular is a model of scholarly research with far-reaching political implications.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:15/07/2015
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- ISBN:9780804780643
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:15/07/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9780804780643
