| Description |
1 online resource (x, 214 pages) |
| Series |
SUNY series in rhetoric and theology |
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SUNY series in rhetoric and theology.
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| Contents |
1. Reading Karl Barth -- Rhetoric and theology -- Readings of Karl Barth -- Barth and expressionism -- A closer look at the expressionist analogy -- 2. Toward a tropology -- Three theories of tropes -- Max Black on metaphor -- Paul Ricoeur and language -- Ricoeur and metaphor -- The tropics of Hayden White -- 3. Metaphor of crisis/crisis of metaphor -- Metaphors and models -- The origin of crisis -- The supporting cast -- The indirection of theology -- The crisis defined? -- The crisis of history and the history of crisis -- The crisis of crisis -- 4. Magic of the extreme -- A lesser trope? -- Nietzsche as exaggerator -- A necessary excess -- An other otherness -- A church destroyed -- The limits of extremity -- 5. Web of Irony -- The varieties of irony -- The ironology of Kierkegaard -- The irony of theology -- An ironic God -- An unstable corrective -- 6. Retreat and reconstruction: re-reading Barth today -- Retreat from rhetoric -- Another other -- Toward a reconstruction |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-211) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Barth, Karl, 1886-1968 -- Writing skill
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| SUBJECT |
Barth, Karl, 1886-1968 fast |
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Barth, Karl 1886-1968 gnd |
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Barth, Karl. swd |
| Subject |
German language -- Rhetoric
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic.
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German language -- Rhetoric
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Rhetorik
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Sprache
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
90034275 |
| ISBN |
0585091277 |
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9780585091273 |
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1438423470 |
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9781438423470 |
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