ArtiFact: Books, Art, Culture26 Jun 2021

ArtiFact #4 - The Book of Ecclesiastes | Alex Sheremet, Joel Parrish

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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Joel's website: https://poeticimport.com

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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