Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/IwvAvD Narrative, Religion and Science Fundamentalism versus Irony, 1700–1999 By: Stephen Prickett Publisher: Cambridge University Press Print ISBN: 9780521811361, 0521811368 eText ISBN: 9780511029837, 0511029837 Edition: 1st Format: PDF Available from $ 39.00 USD SKU 9780511029837 An increasing number of contemporary scientists, philosophers and theologians downplay their professional authority and describe their work as simply 'telling stories about the world'. Yet story telling is neither innocent nor empty-handed. Register, rhetoric and imagery are manipulative, and irony emerges as the natural mode of our modern fragmented culture.