Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas / Fran O'Rourke ; foreword by Michael Patrick Gillespie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Rourke, Fran, author.

Gillespie, Michael Patrick, author of foreword.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Florida James Joyce series

The Florida James Joyce series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joyce, James, 1882-1941.

Joyce, James.

Aristotle--Influence.

Aristotle.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274--Influence.

Thomas.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Philosophy, Ancient, in literature.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

xvi, 314 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2022]

Summary:

"In this book, Fran O'Rourke examines the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both thinkers fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which pervades the author's oeuvre"-- Provided by publisher.

"A rich examination of the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James JoyceIn this book, Fran O'Rourke examines the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both thinkers fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which pervades the author's oeuvre. O'Rourke demonstrates that Joyce was a philosophical writer who engaged creatively with questions of diversity and unity, identity, permanence and change, and the reliability of knowledge.Beginning with an introduction to each thinker, the book traces Joyce's discovery of their works and his concrete engagement with their thought. Aristotle and Aquinas equipped Joyce with fundamental principles regarding reality, knowledge, and the soul, which allowed him to shape his literary characters. Joyce appropriated Thomistic concepts to elaborate an original and personal aesthetic theory. O'Rourke provides an annotated commentary on quotations from Aristotle which Joyce entered into his famous Early Commonplace Book and outlines their crucial significance for his writings. He also provides an authoritative evaluation of Joyce's application of Aquinas's aesthetic principles.The first book to comprehensively illuminate the profound impact of both the ancient and medieval thinker on the modernist writer, Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas offers readers a rich understanding of the intellectual background and philosophical underpinnings of Joyce's work.A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Aristotelian Joyce

Joyce and Aristotle

Aristotelian Concepts

2. Thomist Joyce

The Thomist Revival

Joyce's Jesuit Masters

Thomist Atmosphere

Thomistic Philosophical Handbooks

Joyces Knowledge of Aquinas

3. Knowledge and Permanence

Limit of the Diaphane: Color and Space

Time and Space

Nebeneinander and Nacheinander

Modality and Perception

Perception and Change

Aristotle or Berkeley?

Knowledge in "Scylla and Charybdis"

Knowledge in Finnegans Wake

4. Identity, Soul, and Substance

Selfhood in Finnegans Wake

"Substance" and its Variants

Joyce's Concept of Self

Michael Maher's Psychology Handbook

5. Totality, Diversity, and Order: The Unity of Analogy

Analogy for Aristotle

Analogy for Joyce

Analogy in Ulysses

Uncle Charles Principle

"Word Known to All Men": Love the Analogical Center of Ulysses

Unity in Diversity: Totality and Analogy

6. Beauty: Joyce's Thomist Aesthetics

Aquinas on Beauty

Joyce's Interpretation of Thomist Beauty

Truth and Beauty as Desired

Aquinas's Theory of Cognition

Divorce of Sense and Intellect, Beauty and Truth

Apprehension

The Language of Thomist Aesthetics

Aesthetic Analysis in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Hegelian Joyce?

7. Joyce's Quotations from Aristotle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: O'Rourke, Fran. Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas

ISBN:

9780813069265

0813069262

9780813068633

0813068630

OCLC:

1262639744