Review article

On Violence and Terror of Great and Small Narratives

Boris Gunjević

Abstract

Through genealogical analysis of modern and postmodern discourse in
Lyotard's book Postmodernity Explained: Correspondence 1982- 1985 we come to conclusion that modernity and postmodernity are inherently violent. Both discourses politically culminate in heterotopy of prison camps of Auschwitz and Guantanamo Bay. Metanarratives of modernity failed and promises of progress disappointed. Small narratives of postmodernity offer millions of everyday stories and possibility of deconstruction of all possible modes of centralized knowledge. Marginal stories of postmodernity give us chance to articulate once again a reconstructive position of theological discourse. Not again as metanarrative discourse but foremost as transgressive, counter-punctual and deconstructive analysis of politics, culture and economy following authors like Michel Foucault, Michel De Certeau, Edward Said, René Girard and Walter Brueggeman.

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Hrčak ID:

22280

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/22280

Publication date:

22.7.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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