Abstract

This book pursues a formal and critical language of interdisciplinarity. The 'founding' disciplines within the Humanities – theology, philosophy, and literarure – are brought together here in a shared space, but one that reconsitutes the very nature of each and any discipline. In this space, critique and imagination consciously merge, giving way to a new kind of thinking, a new kind of consciousness, a new kind of textuality. Readings alternate between discursive analysis of a critical thinker – Kant, Nietzsche, and Gadamer – and a more imaginative analysis of a novelist, poet or playwright – Bulgakov, Goethe, Kundera, and Sophocles. In this movement between the critical and creative 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. The author 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.