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St. Matthew Passion / Hans Blumenberg ; translated by Helmut Müller-Sievers and Paul Fleming.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blumenberg, Hans, author.
- Series:
- Signale. Transfer.
- Cornell scholarship online.
- Signale. Transfer
- Cornell scholarship online
- Standardized Title:
- Matthäuspassion. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Jesus Christ--Passion.
- Jesus Christ.
- Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Matthäuspassion.
- Bach, Johann Sebastian.
- Bible. Matthew--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Music--Social aspects--Germany.
- Music.
- Music--Germany--19th century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- 'St. Matthew Passion' is Hans Blumenberg's sustained and devastating meditation on Jesus's anguished cry on the cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' Why did this abandonment happen, what does it mean within the logic of the Gospels, how have believers and nonbelievers understood it, and how does it live on in art? With rare philological acuity and vast historical learning, Blumenberg unfolds context upon context in which this cry has reverberated, from early Christian apologetics and heretics to 20th-century literature and philosophy. Blumenberg's guide through this unending story of divine abandonment is Johann Sebastian Bach's monumental Matthäuspassion, the parabolic mirror that bundled 1800 years of reflection on the fate of the crucified and allows us post-Christian listeners to feel the anguish of those who witnessed the events of the Passion.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- The Horizon
- Escalations of a God
- Corporeality
- Apostates
- Between Two Murderers
- The Tears
- The Imperceptibility of the Messiah
- Translators’ Afterword
- Notes
- Notes:
- Translated from the German.
- This translation previously issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 2, 2022).
- ISBN:
- 9781501705809
- 1501705806
- OCLC:
- 1286807187
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