Milosz and the Problem of Evil (Rethinking the Early Modern) - Hardcover

Tischner, Lukasz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810130823 ISBN 13: 9780810130821

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2015

Synopsis

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 the Rising of the Sun — 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.

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About the Author

?ukasz 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810130823
• ISBN 13: 9780810130821
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336