Kazantzakis, Volume 1 Politics of the Spirit

Name: Kazantzakis, Volume 1 Politics of the Spirit
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ISBN: 9780691128801

ISBN-10: 0691128804

ISBN-13: 9780691128801

Edition: 1990

Authors: Peter Bien

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"No author who lives in Greece," writes Peter Bien, "can avoid politics." This first volume of his major intellectual biography of Nikos Kazantzakis approaches the distinguished--and controversial--writer by describing his struggle with political questions that were in reality aspects of a fervent religious search. Beginning with Kazantzakis's early career in fin de sicle Paris and his discovery of William James, Nietzsche, and Bergson, the book continues by describing his experiments with communism in turbulent Greece, his visits to Soviet Russia, and the publication of his epic Odyssey in 1938. Bien demonstrates that politics and religion cannot be separated in Kazantzakis's development.…

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List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/22/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.13" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.122



Preface to the paperback edition


Preface


A note on documentation and transliteration


List of works


Chronology



Why Kazantzakis is not a Political Writer


Politics or metapolitics?


The essential; the adventitious; continuity


Nationalism equals purposeless heroism


The kravyi: A metapolitical "right act"



Philosophical Studies in Paris


William James


Friedrich Nietzsche


Henri Bergson



Development of Kazantzakis's (Meta-) Communism


The Asia Minor disaster as the stimulus for Kazantzakis's idiosyncratic communism


Vienna: Political yearnings versus Buddhism


Berlin: Bookish and other influences; educational reform


Askitiki



The Iraklion Incident and the Odyssey's First Draft


Italy: Buddha, Saint Francis


Iraklion: Praxis


Iraklion: Art



Russia


Symposium


Second trip to the Soviet Union; the Anayennisi debate; "Crucified Russia"


Italian Fascism


Egypt and Sinai


Odyssey; third trip to the Soviet Union; Panait Istrati


Greece: The Alhambra speech and its consequences


Fourth trip to the Soviet Union; revision of Askitiki


The Roussakov affair; break with Istrati



Toda-Raba and the Waning of Kazantzakis's Communism


A novel of self-revelation


Sorting out Kazantzakis's political allegiances after 1929; why he was never a communist


The attitude of Greek communists and others toward Kazantzakis


Aristotelianism versus existentialism; the middle ground



Aesthetic Freedom


The transitional age


The kravyi


The logos


Heroic action transubstantiated



Odyssey


Successive drafts


World-view


Aids to a holistic reading


Political content


The Kierkegaardian paradigm: Aesthetic, ethical, religious


Summary: How the Odyssey reflects Kazantzakis's political convictions


Notes


References


Index