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  title info:
    title: Characteristic theology of Herman Melville
    sub title: aesthetics, politics, duplicity
  name:
    name part: Johnson, Bradley A.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: oru
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 168 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: What becomes of theology when we think of it aesthetically? What becomes of aesthetics when we think of it theologically? These are the guiding questions that inform both the method and the conclusions of this volume's exploration into the literary world of Herman Melville's "characteristic theology." Far from a specialist work that simply seeks to flesh out the religious disposition and myriad influences of one particular literary giant, Johnson's focus in this volume is instead the identification of a philosophically robust aesthetic conception of theology at its most politically and contemporarily relevant. By way of the Masquerade it sets in motion and in which it fully participates, from its beginning to its very end, this book uses Melville's fiction as vehicle for a radical aesthetic engagement with the theological bases of subjectivity and sovereignty. Through this exploration Johnson conceives the creatively duplicitous character of a materialistic theology whose aim is nothing less than the fashioning of a new heaven and a new earth.
  table of contents: Melville and the problem of self-presentation -- Melville and early German romanticism -- Melville and dialectical materialism -- Melville and aesthetic theology.
  note: Bradley A. Johnson ; foreword by David Jasper.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-165) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Melville, Herman
      name part: 1819-1891
    topic: Theology
  identifier: 1610973410
  identifier: 9781610973410
  record info:
    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 111219
    record change date: 20151202150943.0
    record identifier: in00002742511