Gnostic Modernity?

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

To be more precise, Kafka was gnawgnostic ("The Giant Mole",
"Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk"). And, naturally,
Hemingway should be included: he was gnugnostic.

H.

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Otto wrote:

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> From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
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> Subject: re: Gnostic Modernity?
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> "Not only was Gnosis gnostic, but the catholic authors were gnostic, the
> neoplatonists too, Reformation was gnostic, Communism was gnostic, Nazism
> was gnostic, liberalism, existentialism and psychoanalysis were gnostic too,
> modern biology was gnostic, Blake, Yeats, Kafka, Rilke, Proust, Joyce,
> Musil, Hesse and Thomas Mann were gnostic. From very authoritative
> interpreters of Gnosis, I learned further that science is gnostic and
> superstition is gnostic . Hegel is gnostic and Marx is gnostic; Freud is
> gnostic and Jung is gnostic; all things and their opposite are equally
> gnostic."
> > http://ndpr.icaap.org/content/archives/2002/5/moran-oregan.html
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> I like that!
>
> Otto
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