Literature Against Fundamentalism

Tabish Khair makes the provocative argument that literature is an agnostic mode of thinking about language, reality, and their relationship to each other that can be an antidote to fundamentalism. The book concludes with an impassioned 'call to literature' as a means of remedying the current crisis in the humanities.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Introduction: What Is in a Word?


• 1: What Literature Does Not Say


• 2: Literature, Gaps, and Historicity


• 3: Literature, Gaps, and Ahistoricity


• 4: Language, Literature, and the Book


• 5: Why 'God' and Literature are a Problem for Fundamentalism


• Conclusion: A Call to Literature


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Tabish Khair is an Indian writer, academic and journalist, born (1966) and educated in the small town of Gaya in Bihar, India. After finishing his MA from Gaya, he completed a PhD at Copenhagen University and a DPhil at Aarhus University, Denmark, where he is now an Associate Professor. He has been a visiting professor or research fellow at various universities and has received Carlsberg, Leverhulme, and other academic grants. Khair is also an internationally published novelist.

Summary

Tabish Khair makes the provocative argument that literature is an agnostic mode of thinking about language, reality, and their relationship to each other that can be an antidote to fundamentalism. The book concludes with an impassioned 'call to literature' as a means of remedying the current crisis in the humanities.

Product details

• Authors: Tabish Khair, Tabish (Associate Professor Khair, Khair Tabish
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.07.2024
• EAN: 9780198919582
• ISBN: 978-0-19-891958-2
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: The Literary Agenda
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, PHILOSOPHY / Language, RELIGION / Fundamentalism, Religion & politics, Literary theory, Religion and Politics, Religious Fundamentalism