Gurdjieff beyond the Personality Cult: Reading the Work and Its Re-Workings

This article is a philosophical, aesthetic, and existential exploration of a small book written by one of Gurdjieff’s disciples, René Zuber (1902–1979), under the title Qui êtes-vous Monsieur Gurdjieff? (Le Courrier du Livre, 1977, éditions Éoliennes, 1997 and in English, translated by Jenny Koralek...

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Auteur principal: Karalis, Vrasidas 1960- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2017
Dans: Religion and the arts
Année: 2017, Volume: 21, Numéro: 1/2, Pages: 176-188
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Zuber, René 1902-1979, Qui êtes-vous, Monsieur Gurdjieff? / Gurdjieff, Georges I. 1872-1949 / Culte de la personnalité
Classifications IxTheo:AZ Nouveau mouvement religieux
Sujets non-standardisés:B G. I. Gurdjieff esoteric Christianity René Zuber
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Verlag)
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Résumé:This article is a philosophical, aesthetic, and existential exploration of a small book written by one of Gurdjieff’s disciples, René Zuber (1902–1979), under the title Qui êtes-vous Monsieur Gurdjieff? (Le Courrier du Livre, 1977, éditions Éoliennes, 1997 and in English, translated by Jenny Koralek, Arkana, 1980). Formally the book belongs to a hybrid genre mixing autobiography, philosophy, religious reflection, memoir, and essay. It was composed by Zuber in order to interpret and contextualize Gurdjieff’s teaching and presence particularly during the last years of his life in Paris. At the core of the narrative rests the strange, tense, and somehow ambivalent relationship between Zuber and Gurdjieff, a relationship of equal admiration and reservation, in an attempt, after the death of the master, to establish the proper intellectual and phenomenological locus for Gurdjieff’s work.
ISSN:1568-5292
Contient:In: Religion and the arts
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02101007