Epiphany And Redemption

In this thesis, the two kinds of detail Yasunari Kawabata and T S. Eliot differentNihilism and its ultimate religious choices, in order to show in the works of YasunariKawabata and Eliot Buddhist and Christian ideas to solve modern’s Nihilism efforts ofthe plight of its reference.The article consists of three major components:destruction of sorrow, the sourceof emptiness, the "rebirth" of the road. Oriental nihilism of destruction, sorrowinherent in the analysis of Yasunari Kawabata’s Nobel award-winning work-"SnowCountry","Sleeping Beauty" and "Paper cranes", Eliot’s masterpiece as early as latemasterpiece "The Waste Land "" hollow Man "," four quartets "nihilism, come toYasunari Kawabata’s emptiness concept is" off my epiphany after one kind of havefree empty,"empty enlightenment". Eliot’s emptiness concept, especially since the20th century of the era in which the capitalist system of values (including religiousbeliefs, ethics, education, science and rationality, business culture) produced asignificant doubt about the pain and confusion. Source of nothingness fromnothingness concept of two people to the formation of the era, the historicalbackground and personal experience and start to pry into the their nothingnessconcept of the origin of the formation process."Rebirth" of the road introduces themtheir own nothingness concept of attitude and its solution. Kawabata advocate Zen"enlightenment" things beyond all physical fetters and rise to the intangible infiniteeternal. Eliot proposed humility, prayer, Purgatory, a series of religion to save the way,the time trying to better ourselves and reach of communication with God, to expresshis new understanding and outlook on how to save the wilderness world.Finally, specify: Yasunari Kawabata and Eliot from their own inner feelings arestarting to pursue some kind of spiritual fit and the transcendental subject, so as toachieve the purpose of confrontation "emptiness", which is consistent with Simmel,"exposition of the principal religious". Simmel on the status of the religious present eracan answer that question first: living in the wave of nihilism, they all but invariablychose religion as the path of liberation, in the "post-secular society, religious not, asMarx expected as gradually toward extinction, but by way of the "main religion" offurther development.the modern crisis of nihilism as the main feature is the mostdangerous for humans, but also the greatest opportunity, it makes the future value ofthe maximum to create it possible. Kawabata and Eliot face the reality, positivechoices, dare to undermine the courage to create, it should be praised.