Poetics of Critique

Title first published in 2003. Poetics of Critique breaks new ground in its pursuit of a formal and critical language of interdisciplinarity. The founding disciplines within the humanities - theology philosophy and literature - are brought together here in a shared space but one that reconstitutes the very nature of each and any discipline. Readings alternate between discursive analysis and imaginative revisioning; texts alternate between those of the critical thinker (Kant Nietzsche Gadamer) and those of the novelist the poet and the playwright (Bulgakov Goethe Kundera Sophocles). In this movement between traditions a fusion at once organic and dynamic takes place: theologian philosopher and artist become one and a pure interdisciplinarity begins to emerge into view. Andrew Hass draws us into a new critical-poetic sensibility by which we may explore the ultimate questions of human existence and divine reality with new vigor and sustain or indeed revitalize our deep passion for the fundamental question of truth.