Romantic Enchantment: Fantasy, Theology and Affect

ISBN-13: 9781472532329 / Angielski

Gavin Hopps; Emma Mason; Mark Knight

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Introduction: The Open Space of Romanticism A poetics of the possible Untenanting creation of its God Hermeneutics of suspicion and the eudaimonic turn The white elephant of transcendence Ontological hospitality 1. Secular Fundamentalism Allegories of disenchantment The broken relationship That uncertain heaven Being caught in a revolving door Metaphysical optimism 2. Radical Unbelief An allergy to transcendence All that is solid melts into air The post-secular return of enchantment Weak thought Dwelling in possibility 3. Nihilistic Semiotics The light that never was Ontological scandal Icons and idols Truthful fiction The subjunctive opening Demystification in reverse 4. The World ‘in front of’ the Text Ideology and utopia The poiesis of reading Haunted immanence Realms yet undreamed of An enlargement of being Conclusion: Post-Pessimism Bibliography Index