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Book SynopsisExamining the role of the imagination in the modern and postmodern periods, this book looks at the fable as a narrative form that addresses the ultimate questions of how to live and why. It calls for a reconsideration of 'theory as thinking' for the future of philosophy, religious studies, and literature.
Trade ReviewThis is a brilliant and original book. I am impressed with the depth and seriousness of Taylor's work and the clarity by which he accomplishes it. Taylor has moved into the first rank of 'theological' readers of the literary text and the creative process. - Sander L. Gilman, Emory University, author of Multiculturalism and the Jews ""Taylor's Para-Inquiry was groundbreaking in its own right, but this new work is far more encompassing, sensitive to cutting-edge themes and developments in Continental philosophy and cultural studies, and prepared to take these trajectories to a new level. The marriage of postmodernist theory and religious theory has not been seriously proposed, and Taylor is the first to do so in a significant as well as serious way."" - Carl Raschke, University of Denver, author of The Next Reformation
