Truth Or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative TraditionTalonbooks, 2004 - 412 sider In the tradition of James Frazer, Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell, Thierry Hentsch retells, with new urgency and a keen critical eye, "the story of the West" that shapes our perception of the world. Yet, "the story of the West" does not exist. Only a reading of its most seminal texts--from Ulysses to Hamlet, from the Torah to the Gospels, from Plato to Descartes--can bring it alive. His tale turns on a startling discovery: The Christian message of immortality is conditional. To overcome death--the touchstone of the human condition--the believer must accept the Truth of salvation. Western civilization, by replacing God with technoscience, offers the universal promise that salvation may now be gained on earth. Yet, as a condition, it would impose its own absolute morality on the world. Truth or Death: the Biblical injunction is ours as well. |
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... tale , the Lancelot recounted by Chrétian de Troyes in the Chevalier de la Charrette is already an accomplished knight , though absent when the tale begins . It is a curious , almost discordant , even grotesque , beginning , in which we ...
... tale of forbidden love , the dark love of the two eponymous protagonists as they confront the hostility of their entourage . At the core of the tale lies a constellation of five characters : Tristan , his uncle King Marc , and three ...
... tale hanging in the midst of a ferocious combat - the only true , man - to - man combat which Quixote will have had the opportunity to engage in throughout all his adventures . This unlikely scene , in the tale , of the story of the tale ...
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A Word to the Reader | 11 |
Of Truth and Stories | 21 |
Ulysses or the Happiness of Mortals | 45 |
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