Publication Type

Transcript

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

9-2015

Abstract

Pfau opens with the point that the concepts in the book aren’t tools to be used. For Pfau, a concept is like a person. You can’t use concepts; you have to engage them. You have to know their histories, the way they passed on their traditions and their stories, because concepts are a remembrance of the past. They also grow—or, as John Henry Newman put it—they develop. You have to let a concept breathe, talk, walk. To use a concept—indeed, to be complicit in the modern academic culture’s practices of applying theories and skimming books—is what (for Pfau) is paralyzing the humanities.

Discipline

Arts and Humanities

Research Areas

Humanities

Publication

Syndicate: A New Forum for Theology

First Page

1

Last Page

2

ISSN

2378-1769

Publisher

Cascade Books

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://syndicate.network/symposia/literature/minding-the-modern/

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