Re-reading Kazantzakis’s Askitiki

Centenary Reflections

£72.99

Emerging and established scholars plunge into the abyss of Kazantzakis’s most arresting philosophical treatise, Askitiki. This volume sheds new light on one of his most misunderstood works, bringing fresh voices to the study of one of Greece’s most important figures.

Blending scholarly work with personal experience through a variety of historical, philosophical, literary and theological outlooks, this volume seeks to redress the lack of attention…

Blending scholarly work with personal experience through a variety of historical, philosophical, literary and theological outlooks, this volume seeks to redress the lack of attention Askitiki has received. Emerging scholars and established academics plunge together into the abyss of Kazantzakis’s most arresting philosophical treatise and shed new light on one of his most misunderstood works. Through this wide-ranging attention to such a pivotal text in the author’s career and thought this volume brings fresh voices forward in the study of one of twentieth-century Greece’s most important figures.

Lewis Owens was awarded a PhD in 2000 (Queens’ College, Cambridge, UK) for his thesis on Kazantzakis. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and volumes on Kazantzakis’s religious and philosophical thought and is the author of Creative Destruction: Nikos Kazantzakis and the Literature of Responsibility (2003). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2024.

Nikos Mathioudakis is a stylolinguist in the fields of Greek Language and Literature. He was awarded his doctoral thesis in Linguistics at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, and completed his postdoctoral research in Linguistics and Digital Humanities. In 2020, he published his first monograph The ODYS(S)EY OF WORDS: Neological Undictionaried Words in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Epic. In 2022, he wrote the Prologue and Postscript for the unpublished work O Aniforos by Kazantzakis, released for the first time in Greek. He has taught as visiting professor at the University of Granada, the University of Belgrade, the Democritus University of Thrace and the Hellenic Open University, Greece.

Afroditi Athanasopoulou, George Vlachos, George Dritsas, Dora Simintzi, John Sakkas, Afroditi Tseremi, Thomas Karagkiozopoulos, Svitlana Pereplotchykova, Paola Pruett-Vergara, Mara Psalti, Bart Soethaert, David Holton, Peter Bien, Ewa Janion, Dionysious Psilopoulos, Irena Luksic, Basilius J. Bert Groen, Lewis Owens, Nikos Mathioudakis

Hardback

ISBN: 1-0364-5797-4
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-5797-6

Categories: Social Sciences, Literature, Literature, History, Religion and Faith

Pages: 244

Subject Codes:

BIC: DSBH, HBJD, HRAB
THEMA: DSBJ, DSBH, NHD, QRAB

Pages: 244

"Encyclopedic in range, Re-reading Kazantzakis's Askitiki features the sort of scholarly brilliance and stylistic variety that come when conversant and lucid thinkers play freely, meticulously, even contemplatively, with a great writer’s trailblazing text. Each of the volume's contributors not only provide an immensely rich and useful guide to one of the last century's most influential philosophical essays but also document the workings of an intellectually curious and culturally attuned personality, observing, questioning, and reinventing the metaphysical notions and moral practices of his time. Readers of this splendidly resourceful anthology will enjoy 'overhearing' the lively, thought-provoking dialogue that marked the University of Cambridge conference that gave rise to this commendably global tribute to Kazantzakis's secular spirituality."
- Darren J. N. Middleton Professor of Literature and Theology, Baylor University, USA.

Re-reading Kazantzakis’s Askitiki

Hardback

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