Stanley Bill

Czeslaw Milosz's Faith in the Flesh

Body, Belief, and Human Identity

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the writings of Polish laureate Czes¿aw Mi¿osz perspectives on transcendence and religious belief in a secular age through creative engagement with sensual or material experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780192844392
• ISBN-10: 0192844393
• Artikelnr.: 66148237

Autorenporträt

Stanley Bill is Director of the Polish Studies Programme at the University of Cambridge. He works on twentieth-century Polish literature and culture, and on contemporary politics in Poland. He has published articles on populism and civil society, postcolonial theory in the Polish context, legacies of Polish Romanticism, and the works of Czes¿aw Mi¿osz, Bruno Schulz, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. His translation of Mi¿osz's novel The Mountains of Parnassus was published by Yale University Press in 2017. He is founder and editor-at-large of the news and opinion website Notes from Poland.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Mystery of the Body
1: Beyond the Body: Reinventing Transcendence
2: The Totalitarian Self: Consciousness in the Trap of the Body
3: The Embodied Self: Corporeal Sources of Religious Experience
4: The Fluid Self: Woman, Body, and the Flesh of the World
5: Poetry and the Body: The Meaning of Rhythm and the Rhythm of Meaning
Conclusion: Belief in the Body