tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post8299583430397076899..comments2023-10-04T09:50:08.070-05:00Comments on Logismoi: Mikhail Bakhtin: The ThinkerAaron Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-89602480465202966492010-04-29T10:43:34.255-05:002010-04-29T10:43:34.255-05:00You're very welcome, Father! I actually had th...You're very welcome, Father! I actually had the idea years ago to write some sort of introduction to Bakhtin for Orthodox Christians. Originally it would never have occurred to me that a blog would be the perfect forum for such a thing!<br /><br />Concerning the fools-for-Christ, I think part of the problem is that, as with St Seraphim, we have a tendency to look at that them for affirmation of our own pet ideologies and proclivities. For this reason, though I think he's basically on target, I worry a bit even about Yannaras's use of the holy fools in <i>Freedom of Morality</i>. It's just too convenient when they manage to prove a point that happens to be helpful to 20th-c. postures. And this from a man who so viciously rejects St Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain.Aaron Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-61322000259470170752010-04-29T09:32:58.015-05:002010-04-29T09:32:58.015-05:00Again, thank you for these posts!
There's so ...Again, thank you for these posts!<br /><br />There's so much here, it's difficult to respond. I share your sense of puzzlement about what to do with Bakhtin's sense of carnival. Ugolnik does about as good a job with that as I can imagine - emphasizing the Gospel's critique of the princes of this world and the sense of eschatological openness that breaks open closed, tyrannical systems. This is an avenue worthy of more exploration. I sense a difference between the holy fool in the Orthodox East and the fool in the post-Franciscan West... Some of which relates to perceptions of laughter and frivolity. Take, for example, the stream which culminates in Harvey Cox's "Feast of Fools" and "Jesus Christ Superstar." It's been observed that the fool in the West makes us laugh, perhaps uncomfortably, while the fool in the East should bring us to tears - e.g. St Xenia of Petersburg.<br /><br />Nonetheless, again, thank you!<br /><br />Fr MSt. Matthew the Apostle Orthodox Churchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06969240942813338416noreply@blogger.com