Kazantzakis’ Philosophical and Theological Thought
Kazantzakis’ Philosophical and Theological Thought

Author: Jerry H. Gill

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-06-20

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 3319938339

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This book explores the philosophical and theological thought of Nikos Kazantzakis. Kazantzakis is a well-known and highly influential Greek writer, having authored such works as Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ, among many others. This volume focuses on the over-arching themes of Kazantzakis’ work, namely the importance of the natural world, the nature of humanity, and the nature of God, by means of an analysis of his major novels and other writings. Along the way attention is given to the views of the important scholars who have interacted with Kazantzakis’s works, including Peter Bien, Darren Middleton, and Daniel Dombrowski.

God's Struggler
God's Struggler

Author: Darren J. N. Middleton

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780865544994

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Argues that while Nikos Kazantzakis may have occupied the so-called borderlands between belief and unbelief throughout much of his career, he nonetheless possessed, or was possessed by, an intense awareness of the sacred. These 11 essays analyze in detail Kazantzakis's lifelong struggle to give voic

Kazantzakis and God
Kazantzakis and God

Author: Daniel A. Dombrowski

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1997-10-16

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781438401331

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Examines the concept of God which emerges from the writings of Nikos Kazantzakis and argues that he was a process theist.

Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek
Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek

Author: Wook-Dong Kim

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-01-04

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1527524221

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Adopting a pluralist approach, this book presents a detailed analysis of Zorba the Greek (1946), by Nikos Kazantzakis, recognised as one of the greatest writers Greece has produced since the days of Homer and the Ancient Greek dramatists. Acclaimed both as a modern classic and as an international bestseller, the novel has increasingly gained popularity not only in the Western world, but also in East Asia. This text reads Kazantzakis’s novel from five different critical perspectives: formalist, existentialist, feminist, ecocritical, and intercultural. As such, it will be useful to literary critics, scholars, and general readers, as well as any person interested in literary criticism and theory.

In Search of Transcendence
In Search of Transcendence

Author: Jerry H. Gill

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-07-31

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 9004349715

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This book explores the philosophical/religious thought of Soren Kierkegaard, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Nikos Kazantzakis in relation to the concept of transcendence. Each of these thinkers has made a strong impact on Western religious and philosophical thought, but each from a nearly completely different angle as well as from a different national background. This comparative study therefore crosses both national and perspectival boundaries. Each of the three thinkers struggled with the notion of transcendence but in uniquely distinct fashion. The conclusion offers yet a third model, the author’s, for understanding transcendence focusing on the concept of “mediation”.

Truths Up His Sleeve: The Times of Michael Cacoyannis
Truths Up His Sleeve: The Times of Michael Cacoyannis

Author: John Howard

Publisher: Universitat de València

Published: 2022-04-13

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 8491349588

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This first critical biography of radio broadcaster, stage director, and auteur filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis examines his prolific body of work within the socio-political context of his times. Best known as a bold modernist for triple-Oscar-winner ‘Zorba the Greek’, Michael likewise was hailed as an astute classicist for his inventive interpretations of Euripides. Working across several continents and languages, he forwarded feminist, humanist, and pacifist agendas, as he further innovated crafty LGBT narratives of unprecedented artistry and complexity. Despite intense persecution during the Cold War red scare and lavender scare, his casts and crews of frugal cosmopolitans critiqued racism, militarism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. Avoiding censorship, job loss, and jail, Michael thereby laid foundations for the 1990s new queer cinema and set the stage for empowering dramas of socio-economic justice in the third millennium. Over his long life and productive career, Michael exposed and espoused the vital truths up his sleeve.

Kazantzakis and God
Kazantzakis and God

Author: Daniel A. Dombrowski

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1997-10-16

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780791434925

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Not a stage comedy, but an exploration of Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis' (1883-1957) view of God, specifically of his attempt to develop a view superior to the traditional one. Finds that he chose Plato's approach over Aristotle and that though his theism is heterodox and controversial, it is a combination of views that grow out of solidly orthodox concerns and sources. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Novel Theology
Novel Theology

Author: Darren J. N. Middleton

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780865546240

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Literature and theology constantly (de)construct each other. Suggesting that this (de)constructive assignment is one that cannot but be "in process itself," Middleton returns to it throughout his study.".

Broken Hallelujah
Broken Hallelujah

Author: Darren J. N. Middleton

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9780739119273

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Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Kazantzakis's death, author Darren J. N. Middleton looks back on Kazantzakis's life and literary art to suggest that, contrary to popular belief, Kazantzakis and his views actually comport with the ideals of Christianity.