In ArtiFact #4, Joel Parrish and I discuss growing up religious, the literary questions surrounding the Bible's Ecclesiastes, and other works of art by Rembrandt, Countee Cullen, and Robinson Jeffers.
You can also watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWgEDn4TXIY
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Music sample: Lowkemia - "Lorem Ipsum" (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Timestamps:
0:14 - Joel amidst the wildfires
5:48 - Some peculiarities of Russian Orthodoxy
9:40 - Joel's religious upbringing
17:05 - Religion will continue compromising with itself
27:34 - Joel: religion still sticks to the atheist
34:03 - Christian Marxism in action
41:37 - Religious sublimation, or sublimating religion?
45:14 - Alex: healthy atheists don't obsess over religion
50:26 - Loren Eiseley as spiritual literature
55:04 - Is religion explanatory or prescriptive?
01:06:46 - Alex: God is an after-thought in Ecclesiastes
01:09:00 - Joel on Biblical structures
01:13:11 - Reading Ecclesiastes, Ch. 1
01:17:12 - Robinson Jeffers vs. Ecclesiastes
01:25:25 - Ch. 2: Solomon's (missing) labors
01:34:32 - Solomon's sophistries
01:40:08 - Ch. 3: where does the narrator truly stand?
01:47:06 - Ch. 5: Schopenhauer explains Ecclesiastes
01:57:00 - Ch. 7: against gatekeeping
02:04:19 - Ch. 9: cutting God out of the equation
02:08:06 - Ch. 10: redemption arcs
02:11:09 - Ch. 11: for the love of melancholy
02:22:22 - Ch. 12: whose epilogue?
02:25:05 - Ecclesiastes as a work of art
02:33:32 - Critiquing Rembrandt's "The Prodigal Son"
02:49:24 - Encore: Robinson Jeffers, Countee Cullen
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