Bonaventure’s Aesthetics
The Delight of the Soul in Its Ascent into God
Seiten
2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9765-4 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9765-4 (ISBN)
Bonaventure’s Aesthetics: The Delight of the Soul in Its Ascent into God provides an extensive analysis of Bonaventure’s concept of beauty, the first to appear since Balthasar’s Herrlichkeit, and the role it plays in the Itinerarium mentis in Deum.
The authors of the standard approach to Bonaventure’s aesthetics established the broad themes that continue to inform the current interpretation of his philosophy, theology, and mysticism of beauty: his definition of beauty and its status as a transcendental of being, his description of the aesthetic experience, and the role of that experience in the soul’s ascent into God. Nevertheless, they also introduced a series of pointed questions that the current literature has not adequately resolved. In Bonaventure’s Aesthetics: The Delight of the Soul in Its Ascent into God, Thomas J. McKenna provides a comprehensive analysis of Bonaventure’s aesthetics, the first to appear since Balthasar’s Herrlichkeit, and argues for a resolution to these questions in the context of his principal aesthetic text, the Itinerarium mentis in Deum.
The authors of the standard approach to Bonaventure’s aesthetics established the broad themes that continue to inform the current interpretation of his philosophy, theology, and mysticism of beauty: his definition of beauty and its status as a transcendental of being, his description of the aesthetic experience, and the role of that experience in the soul’s ascent into God. Nevertheless, they also introduced a series of pointed questions that the current literature has not adequately resolved. In Bonaventure’s Aesthetics: The Delight of the Soul in Its Ascent into God, Thomas J. McKenna provides a comprehensive analysis of Bonaventure’s aesthetics, the first to appear since Balthasar’s Herrlichkeit, and argues for a resolution to these questions in the context of his principal aesthetic text, the Itinerarium mentis in Deum.
Thomas J. McKenna is professor of history and philosophy at Concord University in Athens, West Virginia.
A Note on the Cover Illustration
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Disputed Questions on Bonaventure’s Aesthetics
1. Bonaventure’s Debt to l’Esthétique Musicale
2. Bonaventure’s Debt to l’Esthétique de la Lumière
3. Bonaventure’s Account of the Aesthetic Experience
4. The Aesthetic Dimensions of the Itinerarium Mentis in Deum
Conclusion
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 6 tables; |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4985-9765-3 / 1498597653 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-9765-4 / 9781498597654 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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