Czeslaw Milosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity

by Bill and Stanley Bill

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This book presents Czeslaw Milosz'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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0192844393

ISBN13:9780192844392

Release Date:October 2022

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.4" x 9.0"

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