Incomprehensible certainty : metaphysics and hermeneutics of the image.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pfau, Thomas.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imagery (Psychology)--Philosophy.

Imagery (Psychology).

Physical Description:

785 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, 2022.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 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

pt. 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

-Cezanne

-Rilke.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

0268202486

9780268202484

OCLC:

1262798324

Publisher Number:

99991117528