The Fullness of Knowing

Daniel E. Ritchie is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Humanities Program at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of Reconstructing Literature in an Ideological Age: A Biblical Poetics and Literary Studies from Milton to Burke, and the editor of two collections on Edmund Burke: Further Reflections on the Revolution in France, and Edmund Burke: Appraisals and Applications. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Acknowledgements Introduction: ""All Is Trash that Reason Cannot Reach"": Unenlightened Writers and the Postmodern World Chapter One: Learning to Read, Learning to Listen in Robinson Crusoe Chapter Two: The Hymns of Isaac Watts and Postmodern Worship: Aesthetic Knowledge as a Response to the Enlightenment Critique of Religion Chapter Three: Jonathan Swift's Information Machine and the Critique of Technology Chapter Four: Christopher Smart's Poetry and the Dialogue between Science and Theology Chapter Five: Festival and Discipline in Revolutionary France and Postmodern Times Chapter Six: Remembering Things Past: Tradition as a Way of Knowing in Edmund Burke and Hans-Georg Gadamer Chapter Seven: Reconciling the Heart with the Head: The Poetry of William Cowper and the Thought of Michael Polanyi Conclusion Bibliography

In the welter of books on postmodernism, this artful book stands out both in its matter and its method." Aca?"Dan R. Stiver, Cook-Derrick Professor of Theology, Logsdon School of Theology, Hardin-Simmons University Unique in its comparative approach... i"?The Fullness of Knowing offers an alternative narrative to the hard and fast empiricism that the eighteenth century are also present in postmodern thinkers. -- Katherine Kickel -- The Scriblerian and Kit-Cats