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008			130625s2012 nju o 000 0 eng d
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020			_a9781400824410 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aPA5610 _b.K393 2012
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aBien, Peter. _e1
245	1	0	_aKazantzakis : _bPolitics of the Spirit, Volume 1. _c
260			_aPrinceton : _bPrinceton University Press, _c(c)2012.
300			_a1 online resource (659 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aPrinceton Modern Greek Studies
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505	0	0	_aCover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the paperback edition; Preface; A note on documentation and transliteration; List of works; Chronology; One. Why Kazantzakis is not a Political Writer; Politics or metapolitics?; The essential; the adventitious; continuity.; Nationalism equals purposeless heroism.; The kravyí: A metapolitical "right act."; Two. Philosophical Studies in Paris; William James.; Friedrich Nietzsche.; Henri Bergson.; Three. Development of Kazantzakis's (Meta- )Communism; The Asia Minor disaster as the stimulus for Kazantzakis's idiosyncratic communism.
505	0	0	_aVienna: Political yearnings versus Buddhism. Berlin: Bookish and other influences; educational reform.; Askitikí.; Four. The Iráklion Incident and the Odyssey's First Draft; Italy: Buddha, Saint Francis.; Iráklion: Praxis.; Iráklion: Art.; Five. Russia; Symposium.; Second trip to the Soviet Union; the Anayénnisi 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.
505	0	0	_aSix. Toda-Raba and the Waning of Kazantzakis's CommunismA 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.; Seven. Aesthetic Freedomi; The transitional age.; The kravyí.; The lógos.; Heroic action transubstantiated.; Eight. Odyssey; Successive drafts.; World-view.; Aids to a holistic reading.; Political content.; The Kierkegaardian paradigm: Aesthetic, ethical, religious.
520	0		_aHow the Odyssey reflects Kazantzakis's political convictions. Notes; References; Index.
520	0		_a""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-siècle 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 epi.
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600	1	0	_aKazantzakis, Nikos, _d1883-1957 _xPolitical and social views.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=509734&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell