Open AccessOf the Postmodernists’ Party Without Knowing It: Philip Pullman, Hypermorality and Metanarratives
Author(s) -
Beppie Keane
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
papers (victoria park)/papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1837-4530
pISSN - 1034-9243
DOI - 10.21153/pecl2005vol15no1art1260
Subject(s) - trilogy , morality , george (robot) , rationality , philosophy , religious studies , sociology , epistemology , art , art history
The prominence of Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy has prompted energetic debate around Pullman's treatment of organised religion and questions of morality and ethics. Pullman's treatment of religion is considered in a different way by drawing on George Bataille's notion of hypermorality, which proposes a view of morality based on rationality and enabling a critique of those moral codes, which claim the authority of institutionalised religions.