Qohelet and the Marks of Modernity: Reading Ecclesiastes with Matthew Arnold and Charles Taylor

The biblical book of Ecclesiastes is often claimed as a harbinger of modernity. In this essay, I compare Ecclesiastes with two overlapping constructions of modernity, taken from Matthew Arnold and Charles Taylor, focusing especially on Taylor's motifs of inwardness, narrativity, meaninglessness...

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Main Author: Grillo, Jennie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2016]
In: Religions
Year: 2016, Volume: 7, Issue: 6, Pages: 1-9
Further subjects:B Charles Taylor
B Narrativity
B Modernity
B Inwardness
B meaninglessness
B Ecclesiastes
B Qohelet
B Ordinary Life
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