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Incomprehensible Certainty : Metaphysics and Hermeneutics of the Image.

"Thomas Pfau's study of images and visual experience is a tour de force linking Platonic metaphysics to modern phenomenology and probing literary, philosophical, and theological accounts of visual experience from Plato to Rilke. Incomprehensible Certainty presents a sustained reflection on...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pfau, Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Writing the Image
  • PART I. Image Theory as Metaphysics and Theology: The Emergence of a Tradition
  • 1 A Brief Metaphysics of the Image: Plato-Plotinus
  • 2 Theology and Phenomenology of the Byzantine Icon
  • 3 The Eschatological Image: Augustine-Bonaventure- Julian of Norwich
  • 4 The Mystical Image: Platonism and Communal Vision in Nicholas of Cusa
  • PART II. The Image in the Era of Naturalism and the Persistence of Metaphysics
  • 5 The Symbolic Image: Visualizing the Metamorphosis of Being in Goethe
  • 6 The Forensic Image: Paradoxes of Realism in Lyell, Darwin, and Ruskin
  • 7 The Sacramental Image: G. M. Hopkins
  • 8 The Epiphanic Image: Husserl-Cézanne-Rilke
  • Works Cited
  • Index