Qohelet and the Marks of Modernity: Reading Ecclesiastes with Matthew Arnold and Charles Taylor
The biblical book of Ecclesiastes is often claimed as a harbinger of modernity. In this essay, I compare Ecclesiastes with two overlapping constructions of modernity, taken from Matthew Arnold and Charles Taylor, focusing especially on Taylor's motifs of inwardness, narrativity, meaninglessness...
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Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
Έλεγχος διαθεσιμότητας: | HBZ Gateway |
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Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2016]
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Στο/Στη: |
Religions
Έτος: 2016, Τόμος: 7, Τεύχος: 6, Σελίδες: 1-9 |
Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Charles Taylor
B Narrativity B Modernity B Inwardness B meaninglessness B Ecclesiastes B Qohelet B Ordinary Life |
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Πιθανολογούμενα δωρεάν πρόσβαση Volltext (Publisher) Volltext (doi) |
Σύνοψη: | The biblical book of Ecclesiastes is often claimed as a harbinger of modernity. In this essay, I compare Ecclesiastes with two overlapping constructions of modernity, taken from Matthew Arnold and Charles Taylor, focusing especially on Taylor's motifs of inwardness, narrativity, meaninglessness, and ordinary life. I suggest that the likeness to modernity in Ecclesiastes is a complex bundle of emphases held in tension, which remains hospitable to pre-modern understandings and commitments. |
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ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Religions
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel7060077 |