Fate or Free Will? The Reception of Greek Religion in Jean Cocteau’s La Machine Infernale (1934)

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-772332
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.77233

Kruse, Elisabeth

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Abstract

In the present article we propose to analyse the link between Greek religion and philosophical concepts of the human condition as a problem of reconciling determinism and at the same time free will, with its existential and moral implications. This issue has remained a matter of revision and discussion throughout the ages and latitudes within philosophy, but also in the literature, where through ...