عنوان

Lazarus and the Sickness Unto Death:

شماره

LA125157

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Lazarus and the Sickness Unto Death:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

An Allegory of Despair

نام نخستين پديدآور

Simon D. Podmore

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This article explores the religious symbolism of death and resurrection in works by Dostoevsky, Holbein, Kazantzakis, and Kierkegaard, examining the imaginative correlation between the death of God and the sickness of the soul. Exploring the symbolic analogy between the death of the self and the death of God evoked by these works, I offer an existential reading of the death and raising of Lazarus as an allegory of despair over the possibility of salvation. I illustrate this existential dis-ease via a symbolic reading of two artistic depictions of death and resurrection. Beginning with reference to Nikos Kazantzakis's account of the death of Lazarus in The Last Temptation, and proceeding to Fyodor Dostoevsky's famous description in The Idiot of Hans Holbein the Younger's The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521), I endeavor to articulate a constructive existential and psychological analogy between the death of the self and despair over the death of God (interpreted as an expression of the loss of hope in salvation). Finally, by reading such despair with imaginative-symbolic reference to Lazarus, I return to Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death in search of hope in the "impossible possibility of salvation." This article explores the religious symbolism of death and resurrection in works by Dostoevsky, Holbein, Kazantzakis, and Kierkegaard, examining the imaginative correlation between the death of God and the sickness of the soul. Exploring the symbolic analogy between the death of the self and the death of God evoked by these works, I offer an existential reading of the death and raising of Lazarus as an allegory of despair over the possibility of salvation. I illustrate this existential dis-ease via a symbolic reading of two artistic depictions of death and resurrection. Beginning with reference to Nikos Kazantzakis's account of the death of Lazarus in The Last Temptation, and proceeding to Fyodor Dostoevsky's famous description in The Idiot of Hans Holbein the Younger's The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521), I endeavor to articulate a constructive existential and psychological analogy between the death of the self and despair over the death of God (interpreted as an expression of the loss of hope in salvation). Finally, by reading such despair with imaginative-symbolic reference to Lazarus, I return to Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death in search of hope in the "impossible possibility of salvation."

تاريخ نشر

2011

توصيف ظاهري

486-519

عنوان

Religion and the Arts

شماره جلد

15/4

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5292

اصطلاح موضوعی

Dead Christ

اصطلاح موضوعی

despair

اصطلاح موضوعی

Fyodor Dostoevsky

اصطلاح موضوعی

Hans Holbein

اصطلاح موضوعی

Lazarus

اصطلاح موضوعی

melancholy

اصطلاح موضوعی

Nikos Kazantzakis

اصطلاح موضوعی

Søren Kierkegaard

اصطلاح موضوعی

The Sickness Unto Death

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Simon D. Podmore

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/156852911X580801

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y