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Czeslaw Milosz's Faith in the Flesh - Body, Belief, and Human Identity (Hardcover)
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Czeslaw Milosz's Faith in the Flesh - Body, Belief, and Human Identity (Hardcover)
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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 book
argues that his response was not merely to reconstitute spiritual
or ideal forms of human identity, which no longer seemed plausible.
Instead, he aimed to revalidate the flesh, elaborating his own
non-reductive understandings of the self on the basis of the body's
deeper meanings. Within the framework of a hesitant Christian
faith, Milosz's poetry and prose often suggest a paradoxical
striving toward transcendence precisely through sensual experience.
Yet his perspectives on bodily existence are not exclusively
affirmative. The book traces his diverse representations of the
body from dualist visions that demonize the flesh through to
positive images of the body as the source of religious experience,
the self, and his own creative faculty. It also examines the
complex relations between "masculine" and "feminine" bodies or
forms of subjectivity, as Milosz represents them. Finally, it
elucidates his contention that poetry is the best vehicle for
conveying these contradictions, because it also combines
"disembodied", symbolic meanings with the sensual meanings of sound
and rhythm. For Milosz, the double nature of poetic meaning
reflects the fused duality of the human self.
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