Kazantzakis : Politics of the Spirit, Volume 1

Summary: ""No author who lives in Greece, "" writes Peter Bien, ""can avoid politics."" This first volume of his major intellectual biography of Nikos Kazantzakis approaches the distinguished--and controversial--writer by describing his struggle with political questions that were in reality aspects of a fervent religious search. Beginning with Kazantzakis's early career in fin-de-siècle Paris and his discovery of William James, Nietzsche, and Bergson, the book continues by describing his experiments with communism in turbulent Greece, his visits to Soviet Russia, and the publication of his epi.

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ISBN: 1400824419
ISBN: 9781400824410
Physical Description: 1 online resource (659 pages)
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Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.