Author : Jason Hoult
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031076168
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Liberation of Life through Death by : Jason Hoult
Download or read book The Liberation of Life through Death written by Jason Hoult and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book undertakes to show how the exercise of reading Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” involves articulating for ourselves, as readers, what it means to liberate life through death. What Tolstoy’s short story shows us, the author argues, is that life can be truly liberated through death only when we see that death is neither a supernatural event nor a natural end but involves a work of love. In Part 1 of his study, the author addresses the common assumptions that give rise to the idea that religious and secular views of life and death are opposed in modernity. He also examines the history of values that Tolstoy’s story embodies. In Part 2, he analyses the life and death of Ivan Ilyich in order to show that the values that are embedded in Tolstoy’s story are at once religious and secular.