The Fullness of Knowing: Modernity and Postmodernity from Defoe to Gadamer

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vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Unenlightened Writers and the Postmodern World 1 1 Learning to Read, Learning to Listen in Robinson Crusoe 9 2 The Hymns of Isaac Watts and Postmodern Worship 37 3 Jonathan Swift’s Information Machine and the Critique of Technology 67 4 Christopher Smart’s Poetry and the Dialogue between Science and Theology 95 5 Festival and Discipline in Revolutionary France and Postmodern Times 127 6 Tradition as a Way of Knowing in Edmund Burke and Hans-Georg Gadamer 155 7 Reconciling the Heart with the Head in the Poetry of William Cowper and the Thought of Michael Polanyi 185 Conclusion 211 Notes 215 Selected Bibliography 269 Index 277 Q ...