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Czeslaw Miloszs Faith In The Flesh Body Belief And Human Identity 1st Edition Stanley Bill

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Publisher: Oxford University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 1.41 MB

Pages: 224

Author: Stanley Bill

ISBN: 9780192844392, 0192844393

Language: English

Year: 2022

Edition: 1

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Czeslaw Miloszs Faith In The Flesh Body Belief And Human Identity 1st Edition Stanley Bill by Stanley Bill 9780192844392, 0192844393 instant download after payment.

This book presents Czesław Miłosz's poetic philosophy of the body as an original defense of religious faith, transcendence, and the value of the human individual against what he viewed as dangerous modern forms of materialism. The Polish Nobel laureate saw the reductive
"biologization" of human life as a root cause of the historical tragedies he had witnessed under Nazi German and Soviet regimes in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe. The book argues that his response was not merely to reconstitute spiritual or ideal forms of human identity, which no
longer seemed plausible. Instead, he aimed to revalidate the flesh, elaborating his own non-reductive understandings of the self on the basis of the body's deeper meanings.
Within the framework of a hesitant Christian faith, Miłosz's poetry and prose often suggest a paradoxical striving toward transcendence precisely through sensual experience. Yet his perspectives on bodily existence are not exclusively affirmative. The book traces his diverse representations of
the body from dualist visions that demonize the flesh through to positive images of the body as the source of religious experience, the self, and his own creative faculty. It also examines the complex relations between "masculine" and "feminine" bodies or forms of subjectivity, as Miłosz
represents them. Finally, it elucidates his contention that poetry is the best vehicle for conveying these contradictions, because it also combines "disembodied", symbolic meanings with the sensual meanings of sound and rhythm. For Miłosz, the double nature of poetic meaning reflects the fused
duality of the human self.