| Bonaventure's Aesthetics: The Delight of the Soul in Its Ascent into God Contributor(s): McKenna, Thomas J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1498597653 ISBN-13: 9781498597654 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $109.89 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Medieval - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Religion | Theology |
| Dewey: 230.201 |
| LCCN: 2020039676 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (0.98 lbs) 186 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |