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The Plurality of Gods and Man, or "The Aesthetic Attitude in All Its Pagan Splendor" in Fernando Pessoa

The Plurality of Gods and Man, or "The Aesthetic Attitude in All Its Pagan Splendor" in Fernando... special focus religious pluralism: around the world, in the world and of the world? steffen dix University of Lisbon (Institute of Social Sciences), Portugal I. Introduction or a Poetic Encounter Between Man and the Gods following a lengthy period in which they were glorified and worshiped, several illustrious personages led a seemingly miserable and almost forgotten existence for two thousand years until they appeared sporadically in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, philosophy, and poetry. Apart from a brief moment during the Renaissance, the ancient Greek gods only managed to emerge from their existential shadows at the time of Romanticism, when few poets failed to provide these gods with a fleeting haven in some of their verse, even if this favor was often nothing more than a form of tautological self-identification as their being poets (Calasso 11­12). Subsequently, the gods generally played a merely more or less decorative role with little vitality in the literary vocabulary, and a return to Olympus meant nothing more in many cases than a poetic conceit or metaphorical habit. The poet Friedrich Hölderlin, who in 1802 felt truly "struck down" and dazzled by Apollo in Bordeaux, seems more the exception than the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Pluralist University of Illinois Press

The Plurality of Gods and Man, or "The Aesthetic Attitude in All Its Pagan Splendor" in Fernando Pessoa

Dix, Steffen.
The Pluralist , Volume 5 (1) – Jun 11, 2010
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special focus religious pluralism: around the world, in the world and of the world? steffen dix University of Lisbon (Institute of Social Sciences), Portugal I. Introduction or a Poetic Encounter Between Man and the Gods following a lengthy period in which they were glorified and worshiped, several illustrious personages led a seemingly miserable and almost forgotten existence for two thousand years until they appeared sporadically in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, philosophy, and poetry. Apart from a brief moment during the Renaissance, the ancient Greek gods only managed to emerge from their existential shadows at the time of Romanticism, when few poets failed to provide these gods with a fleeting haven in some of their verse, even if this favor was often nothing more than a form of tautological self-identification as their being poets (Calasso 11­12). Subsequently, the gods generally played a merely more or less decorative role with little vitality in the literary vocabulary, and a return to Olympus meant nothing more in many cases than a poetic conceit or metaphorical habit. The poet Friedrich Hölderlin, who in 1802 felt truly "struck down" and dazzled by Apollo in Bordeaux, seems more the exception than the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche

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