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The Philosopher and the Storyteller - Eric Voegelin and Twentieth-Century Literature (Paperback)
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The Philosopher and the Storyteller - Eric Voegelin and Twentieth-Century Literature (Paperback)
Series: The Eric Voegelin Institute Series in Political Philosophy
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Throughout his philosophical career, Eric Voegelin had much to say
about literature in both his published work and his private
letters. Many of his most trenchant comments regarding the analysis
of literature appear in his correspondence with critic Robert
Heilman, and, through his familiarity with that exchange, Charles
Embry has gained extraordinary insight into Voegelin's literary
views. The Philosopher and the Storyteller is the first book-length
study of the literary dimensions of Voegelin's philosophy-and the
first to use his philosophy to read specific novels. Bringing to
bear a thorough familiarity with both Voegelin and great
literature, Embry shows that novels-like myths, philosophy, and
religious texts-participate in the human search for the truth of
existence, and that reading literature within a Voegelinian
framework exposes the existential and philosophical dimensions of
those works. Embry focuses on two key elements of Voegelin's
philosophy as important for reading literature: metaxy, the
in-between of human consciousness, and metalepsis, human
participation in the community of being. He shows how Voegelin's
philosophy in general is rooted in literary-symbolic interpretation
and, therefore, provides a foundation for the interpretation of
literature. And finally he explores Voegelin's insistence that the
soundness of literary criticism lies in the consciousness of the
reader. Embry then offers Voegelinian readings that vividly
illustrate the principles of this approach. First he considers
Graham Swift's Waterland as an example of the human search for
meaning in the modern world, then he explores the deformation and
recovery of reality in Heimito von Doderer's long and complex novel
The Demons, and finally he examines how Flannery O'Connor's The
Violent Bear It Away mythically expresses the flux of divine
presence in what Voegelin calls the Time of the Tale. The
Philosopher and the Storyteller unites fiction and philosophy in
the common quest to understand our nature, our world, and our
cosmos. A groundbreaking exploration of the connection between
Voegelin and twentieth-century literature, this book opens a new
window on the philosopher's thought and will motivate readers to
study other novels in light of this approach.
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