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Transcending the Abrahamic Religions: The Philosophies of The Sun Also Rises and Bashō Poetry

Transcending the Abrahamic Religions: The Philosophies of The Sun Also Rises and Bashō Poetry

Kyle, Frank

Paperback

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismReligion General

ISBN10: 1644385198
ISBN13: 9781644385197
Publisher: Booklocker.Com Inc
Published: Jan 25 2019
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.52 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

The Sun Also Rises invites the reader to embark on a philosophical journey. The journey was initiated by World War I. Because of the war, the story's protagonist, Jake Barnes, suffers an injury that prevents him from having sexual relationship with the woman he loves, thus preventing them from fully realizing their relationship as a couple. The tragedy of the war apparently invalidated for Jake the Grand Narrative of Christianity that clearly played an important part in his life before the war. Jake is a member of the post-war lost generation caught up in a profligate, discordant way of life. Unlike his friends, however, Jake seeks an alternative philosophy of life that offers other sources of meaning. It is through Jake's philosophical quest that the novel does more than present the post-Grand Narrative condition and the postmodern culture it produced. It suggests an alternative worldview that is not only meaningful but really is the only authentic life-enhancing option for humanity. In doing so, the novel introduces the ontology, ethics, and aesthetics of this worldview.

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