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Kazantzakis : Politics of the Spirit, Volume 1.
How the Odyssey reflects Kazantzakis's political convictions. Notes; References; Index.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Princeton modern Greek studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the paperback edition; Preface; A note on documentation and transliteration; List of works; Chronology; One. Why Kazantzakis is not a Political Writer; Politics or metapolitics?; The essential; the adventitious; continuity.; Nationalism equals purposeless heroism.; The kravyí: A metapolitical "right act."; Two. Philosophical Studies in Paris; William James.; Friedrich Nietzsche.; Henri Bergson.; Three. Development of Kazantzakis's (Meta- )Communism; The Asia Minor disaster as the stimulus for Kazantzakis's idiosyncratic communism.
- Vienna: Political yearnings versus Buddhism. Berlin: Bookish and other influences; educational reform.; Askitikí.; Four. The Iráklion Incident and the Odyssey's First Draft; Italy: Buddha, Saint Francis.; Iráklion: Praxis.; Iráklion: Art.; Five. Russia; Symposium.; Second trip to the Soviet Union; the Anayénnisi debate; "Crucified Russia."; Italian Fascism.; Egypt and Sinai.; Odyssey; third trip to the Soviet Union; Panait Istrati.; Greece: The Alhambra speech and its consequences.; Fourth trip to the Soviet Union; revision of Askitiki.; The Roussakov affair; break with Istrati.
- Six. Toda-Raba and the Waning of Kazantzakis's CommunismA novel of self-revelation.; Sorting out Kazantzakis's political allegiances after 1929; why he was never a communist.; The attitude of Greek communists and others toward Kazantzakis.; Aristotelianism versus existentialism; the middle ground.; Seven. Aesthetic Freedomi; The transitional age.; The kravyí.; The lógos.; Heroic action transubstantiated.; Eight. Odyssey; Successive drafts.; World-view.; Aids to a holistic reading.; Political content.; The Kierkegaardian paradigm: Aesthetic, ethical, religious.