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Brauer, Kristen D. (2007) the Religious Roots Of Brauer, Kristen D. (2007) The religious roots of postmodernism in American culture: an analysis of the postmodern theory of Bernard Iddings Bell and its continued relevance to contemporary postmodern theory and literary criticism. PhD thesis http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6164/ Copyright and moral rights for this thesis are retained by the author A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the Author The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the Author When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given. Glasgow Theses Service http://theses.gla.ac.uk/ [email protected] The Religious Roots of Postmodernism in American Culture: An analysis of the postmodern theory of Bernard Iddings Bell and its continued relevance to contemporary postmodern theory and literary criticism Kristen D. Brauer PhD Department of English Literature Faculty of Arts The University of Glasgow March 2007 © Ktisten D. Brauer 2007 Abstract This thesis is an examination and reassessment of an early work on postmodernism written by the once prominent American critic, Bernard Iddings Bell, in 1926. Bell's work, Postmodemism, and other essays, provides us with one of the earliest documented uses of the term "postmodernism" in the English language. It also anticipates many of the pronouncements of later day critics regarding the development of postmodernism in politics, philosophy, and literary criticism. Despite these facts however, or perhaps because of them, contemporary critics have continued to ignore Bell's work, charging that his thesis is "anti-modem" rather than "postmodern", and otherwise inelevant to cunent debates on postmodernism. This thesis will challenge that interpretation. Here it will be argued that the decision to exclude Bell's work from cunent debates on postmodernism is based upon Bell's religious predilections and not upon any evidence of anti-modernism expressed in his thesis. In addition to constituting a radical break with the knowledge systems of the past, Bell argues that postmodernism will also be accompanied by a large scale religious revival. This argument runs counter to the dominant critical consensus regarding the relationship between postmodernism and religion adopted by critics from Arnold J. Toynbee in the 1950s, to Fredric Jameson in the 1990s. Based upon a modem sociological interpretation of religious evolution, for which Max Weber is now largely credited, the latter interpretation argues that as rationalization and intellectualization increase, religious explanations for social and environmental change will decrease exponentially. New sociological evidence gathered since the end of the 1960s, however, allows us to challenge this interpretation and supports a call for the re-evaluation of theses like Bernard Iddings Bell's, which associate postmodernism with religious revival rather than religious disintegration. The first part of the thesis, comprised of chapters one through four, is dedicated to an analysis of the philosophical influences and historical background to Bell's essay with the aim of comparing and contrasting Bell's ideas with those found in more recent works on postmodernism. Here it will be argued that far from a purely theological analysis of postmodern cultural change, Bell's work is also informed by political, philosophical, scientific, and literary ideas. The second part of the thesis, comprised of chapters five through eight, examines the possible impact of Bell's thesis on the interpretation of contemporary American literature and literary theory. Rather than focus on a "poetics of parody", or the theoretical implications of "irony and humour", as previous critics have done, we will focus here on how contemporary writers like John Updike, Don DeLillo, and Toni Morrison, have chosen to incorporate the themes of postmodern criticism into a ctitique of that criticism, especially where this touches on the subject of religion. One theme which will dominate this argument is the literary reaction to modem sociological theories like secularization, particularly that of German sociologist Max Weber, which continues to inform a great deal of contemporary criticism on the role that religion will play in a postmodern social environment. At the end of such an analysis we conclude that Bell's insistence that postmodernism will be defined by a renewed interest in religion and mystical theology still has merit in the realm of contemporary cultural debates. Postmodern criticism that attempts to exclude religion from this arena does so on the basis of a modem interpretation of religious evolution and secularization, and therefore runs the tisk of reiterating an older modernist clitique. Acknowledgements I would like to take the opportunity here to thank my supervisor, Dr. Nick Selby, for his guidance and expertise throughout the course of my study at Glasgow University. His ability to keep me on track and his patience and confidence in my work, have been invaluable. Special thanks must also be extended to my parents, Andrew and Nancy Brauer, for their generous support throughout these years, and to my sister Kathe11ne, without whose encouragement I never would have embarked upon such a course of study. I am also indebted, as always, to Alaric Trousdale for his patience in proofreading and his many helpful comments and suggestions. Table of Contents Abstract 1 Acknow ledgements 3 Introduction 5 Part I: The Postmodem Theory of Bernard Iddings Bell, Influences and Historical Background Chapter 1: The Case Against Liberal Theology at the Beginning of the 25 Twentieth Century Chapter 2: Postmodemism and the Challenge of Fundamentalism 42 Chapter 3: The Scientific Revolution as a Catalyst for Cultural Change 52 Chapter 4: Postmodemism and "the Conservative Revolution" 61 Part II: The Literary Response to Postmodem Disbelief in the Late­ Twentieth Century Chapter 5: Modem Secularization Theory and the Legacy of Max Weber 72 Chapter 6: Confronting Weber's "Ghost": Foregrounding the Unorthodox 86 in John Updike's In the Beauty of the Lilies Chapter 7: "The Painter of Modem Life" and the Triumph of [Modem] Death: 111 Charles Baudelaire, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and the Theme of Modem, Secular Apocalypse in Don DeLillo's Undelworld Chapter 8: "Unspeakable Words, Unspoken": Postmodemism, Race, and 137 Religion in Toni Morrison's Paradise Conclusion 167 Appendix: Major Published Works of Bernard Iddings Bell 178 Bibliography 180 5 Introduction In 1926 the well-known American educator, social critic, and Episcopal priest, Bernard Iddings Bell, published a book of essays entitled Postmodernism, and other essays. The lead essay in this collection, "Postmodernism," represents one of the earliest documented uses of the term in the English language. It also, as it will be argued, anticipates many of the pronouncements of later day critics regarding the development of postmodernism in politics, philosophy, and literary criticism. But while critics have acknowledged other early applications of the telm, such as that of the Spanish literary critic Federico de Onis in 1934, and the British historian Arnold J. Toynbee in 1939, they continue to ignore Bell's 1926 thesis, describing it as "anti- modernist," or irrelevant to CUlTent debates on postmodernism.! To date several factors have contributed to this interpretation of Bell's work and his continued exclusion from debates on postmodernism. The first, and most practical, is time and availability of sources. While Bell's books and articles can still be found in certain libraries in the United States and Britain, most, apart from his last book Crowd Culture (reprinted by lSI books in 2001), have been out of print for decades. Another factor contributing to Bell's relative obscurity since his death in 1 De Onfs first defined postmodernism in Antologfa de la poesfa espanola e hispalloamericana (1882- 1932), Madrid (1934), xviii, as a conservative reaction within modernism itself, which rendered habitual and rhetorical every aspect of the previous movement which had distinguished it as revolutionary, and sought to restore all that it had sought to wipe out. Toynbee defined the postmodern in A Study of Histo/y, 12 vols., London: Oxford University Press (1934-1961), 5:43, 8:338, as an age "inaugurated by the General war of 1914-18", marked by the rise to political power of "an industrial urban working class". Those who cite these works in histories of postmodernism include Charles Jencks, What Is Post-Modernism? 4th ed. 1996, Chichester: Academy Editions (1986), 17; Ihab Hassan, "Toward a Concept of Postmodernism," The Postmodern Tum: Essays ill Postmodel'll TheO/y and Culture, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press (1987), 85; Margaret Rose, The Post-Modem and the Post-Industrial: A Critical Analysis, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1991), 12-13; Thomas Docherty, Postll1odel'llism: A Reader, London: Harvester Wheatsheaf (1993), 1-2; Lawrence E. Cahoone, From Modernism to Postmodemism: An Anthology, Oxford: Blackwell (1996), 3; Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodel'llity, London: Verso (1998), 3-4; and Stuart Sim, The Routledge Companion to Postmodemislll, 2nd ed., London: Routledge (2005), viii. Of these only Cahoone and Sim mentions Bell. 6 1958,
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