...This chapter discusses mystic maybes, looking closely at the works of Matthew Arnold and Richard Kearney. Matthew Arnold objected to the idea of flirting with mystic maybes and calling it religion. The discussion suggests that Arnold and Kearney share a common purpose: dissociating metaphysics...

... Solomon and challenged the unquestioned exemplarity of Greek culture as a paradigm for modernity by reimagining the origins of philosophy and poetry in Jewish tradition. This chapter also considers the views of Matthew Arnold and Friedrich Nietzsche about the typological distinction between the Hellene...