Gábor L Ambrus
Biographic Data
| ID | 9237605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gábor L Ambrus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gábor L |
| FAMILY NAME | Ambrus |
| SIGNATURE | AMBRUS G L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4878-2518 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Catholic Idiom and the Dialectic of Reading: A Meditation on Joris-Karl Huysmans’s Novel À rebours
Huysmans’s novel À rebours can be seen as an epitome of the dialectic implied by the term peccata lectionis: reading can only come into its own through certain ‘sins’ inherent to it while possibly compromising it. Such ‘sins’ are involved in the decision of the novel’s single protagonist and anti-hero, Des Esseintes, to withdraw into the solitude of his country house to live a life dedicated to aesthetic and intellectual pleasure. While celebrati…
The Brave New World of Technology and the Concept of Nothingness
The religious devotion characteristic of a totalitarian society is closely associated with what Jacques Ellul recognised as the totalitarianism of technology. Totalitarian technology induces the rise of secular religions like Fascism and Communism with all their political mystique but can also bring about a techno-religion in which the object of worship is technology itself. In this regard, our times were foreseen by Aldous Huxley, whose Brave Ne…
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The Brave New World of Technology and the Concept of Nothingness
The religious devotion characteristic of a totalitarian society is closely associated with what Jacques Ellul recognised as the totalitarianism of technology. Totalitarian technology induces the rise of secular religions like Fascism and Communism with all their political mystique but can also bring about a techno-religion in which the object of worship is technology itself. In this regard, our times were foreseen by Aldous Huxley, whose Brave Ne…
Catholic Idiom and the Dialectic of Reading: A Meditation on Joris-Karl Huysmans’s Novel À rebours
Huysmans’s novel À rebours can be seen as an epitome of the dialectic implied by the term peccata lectionis: reading can only come into its own through certain ‘sins’ inherent to it while possibly compromising it. Such ‘sins’ are involved in the decision of the novel’s single protagonist and anti-hero, Des Esseintes, to withdraw into the solitude of his country house to live a life dedicated to aesthetic and intellectual pleasure. While celebrati…
Computer Science (1 works) · Dialectic (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · French Literature and Poetry (1 works) · Literary Analysis and Cultural Studies (1 works) · Literature and Culture Studies (1 works) · Media, Religion, Digital Communication (1 works) · Meditation (1 works) · Nothing (1 works) · Philosophy (1 works)