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Milosz and the Problem of Evil
Lukasz Tischner
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Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGP; DSBH; DSC; DSK; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 739.
While scholars have chronicled Czes?aw Mi?osz’s engagement with religious belief, no previous book-length treatment has focused on his struggles with theodicy in both poetry and thought. Mi?osz wrestled with the problem of believing in a just God given the powerful evidence to the contrary in the natural world as he observed it and in the horrors of World War II and its aftermath in Poland. Rather than attempt to survey Mi?osz’s vast oeuvre, ?ukasz Tischner focuses on several key works – The Land of Ulro, The World, The Issa Valley, A Treatise on Morals, A Treatise on Poetry, and From ... Read more — carefully tracing the development of Mi?osz’s moral arguments, especially in relation to the key texts that influenced him, among them the Bible, the Gnostic writings, and the works of Blake, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Schopenhauer. The result is a book that examines Mi?osz as both a thinker and an artist, shedding new light on all aspects of his oeuvre. Show Less
While scholars have chronicled Czes?aw Mi?osz’s engagement with religious belief, no previous book-length treatment has focused on his struggles with theodicy in both poetry and thought. Mi?osz wrestled with the problem of believing in a just God given the powerful evidence to the contrary in the natural world as he observed it and in the horrors of World War II and its aftermath in Poland. Rather than attempt to survey Mi?osz’s vast oeuvre, ?ukasz Tischner focuses on several key works – The Land of Ulro, The World, The Issa Valley, A Treatise on Morals, A Treatise on Poetry, and From ... Read more — carefully tracing the development of Mi?osz’s moral arguments, especially in relation to the key texts that influenced him, among them the Bible, the Gnostic writings, and the works of Blake, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Schopenhauer. The result is a book that examines Mi?osz as both a thinker and an artist, shedding new light on all aspects of his oeuvre. Show Less
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810131774
SKU
V9780810131774
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About Lukasz Tischner
Lukasz Tischner is an assistant professor in the Department of Twentieth-Century Polish Literature at the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. Stanley Bill is a lecturer in Polish studies at the University of Cambridge, UK.
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