Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Shadow boxing ...

... Hitchens versus God.(Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

3 comments:

  1. I wonder if Christopher Hitchens has ever read works by Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Vico. Hitchens, the hostile, close-minded anti-religionist would then begin to understand that religion (especially Christianity and the Bible) cannot be approached as simply literal (yes or no) issues but must be considered as poetics; through poetics (and all of its figurative possibilities), one can better apprehend the sublime reality of the Bible and Christianity.

    Well, I would go a step further and suggest that Hitchens is not the only one who ought to think about Vico as a way of understanding religion. Anyone whose thinking has been addled by modernity should give Vico a close look.

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  2. As you probably know, R.T., Joyce was a big Vico fan.

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  3. Well, I suspect Joyce's analysis of Vico with respect to Joyce's conclusions and attitudes about religion might be a bit different from my analysis (which is admittedly based on a slighter familiarization with Vico).

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