Gnostic Return in Modernity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780791450215)

Gnostic Return in Modernity demonstrates the possibility that Gnosticism haunts certain modern discourses. Studying Gnosticism of the first centuries of the common era and utilizing narrative analysis, the author shows how Gnosticism returns in a select band of narrative discourses that extends from the seventeenth century German mystic Jacob Boehme through Hegel and Blake down into the contemporary period. The key concept is that of narrative grammar. Unlike the hypothesis of an invariant narrative, a Gnostic narrative grammar allows room for the differences between modern and ancient forms of Gnosticism, and respects the dignity of both periods.

Author: Cyril O'Regan
ISBN-10: 079145021X
ISBN-13: 9780791450215
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 07/19/2001
Pages: 322
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.18w x 0.90d