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Podcast: In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
Episode: Stanley Bill, "CzesĹaw MiĹosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Description: In CzesĹaw MiĹoszâs Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity (Oxford University Press, 2021), Cambridge professor Stanley Bill offers a profoundly original, fine-grained, and rich interpretation of the poetic Ĺuvre of Nobel laureate CzesĹaw MiĹosz. The book presents MiĹoszâs poetic philosophy of the body as an original defense of religious faith, transcendence, and the value of the human individual against what he viewed as dangerous modern forms of materialism. The Polish poet saw the reductive âbiologizationâ of human life as a root cause of the historical tragedies he had witnessed under Nazi German and Sovie...