From a Rhetoric of tapeinosis and humilitas through the Tradition of Holy Fools to Dostoevsky’s Christopoetics (The Idiot)

The Christological hymn included in Apostle Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians (2,5-11) applies two different Greek verbs in connection to the concept of Christ’s self-humiliation: kenosis and tapeinosis. This article traces the interconnections between the ethical norm of positive self-humiliation (...

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Main Author: Dirk Uffelmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature 2022-03-01
Series:Достоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал
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Online Access:http://dostmirkult.ru/images/2022-1/04_Uffelmann_100-122.pdf