Format:
1 online resource (334 pages)
ISBN:
9780813072234
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9780813070056
Series Statement:
The Florida James Joyce Ser.
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Aristotelian Joyce -- Joyce and Aristotle -- Aristotelian Concepts -- 2. Thomist Joyce -- The Thomist Revival -- Joyce's Jesuit Masters -- Thomist Atmosphere -- Thomistic Philosophical Handbooks -- Joyce's 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 -- Afterword -- Appendix: Texts on Aesthetics from James Joyce's "Early Commonplace Book" (MS 36,639/02/A) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Nominum -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.
Content:
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.
Content:
"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"--
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813069265
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813068633
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe O'Rourke, Fran, 1951 - Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2022 ISBN 9780813068633
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813069265
Language:
English
