Infinity, Faith, and Time: Christian Humanism and Renaissance LiteratureMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 26.11.1997 - 216 Seiten In Part 1 Hill examines the effect of the idea of spatial infinity on seventeenth-century literature, arguing that the metaphysical cosmology of Nicholas of Cusa provided Renaissance writers, such as Pascal, Traherne, and Milton, with a way to construe the vastness of space as the symbol of human spiritual potential. Focusing on time in Part 2, Hill reveals that, faced with the inexorability of time, Christian humanists turned to St Augustine to develop a philosophy that interpreted temporal passage as the necessary condition of experience without making it the essence or ultimate measure of human purpose. Hill's analysis centres on Shakespeare, whose experiments with the shapes of time comprise a gallery of heuristic time-centred fictions that attempt to explain the consequences of human existence in time. Infinity, Faith, and Time reveals that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a period during which individuals were able, with more success than in later times, to make room for new ideas without rejecting old beliefs. |
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... Augustine and Nicholas of Cusa . John Spencer Hill argues that this tradition had a formative role in the thought of Renaissance writers by enabling them to assimilate into their worldview two central discoveries of the Renaissance ...
... Augustine and Nicholas of Cusa . John Spencer Hill argues that this tradition had a formative role in the thought of Renaissance writers by enabling them to assimilate into their worldview two central discoveries of the Renaissance ...
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... Augustine and Bergson 78 8 Time , Literature , and Literary Criticism 88 9 Time in Shakespeare 104 10 Heilsgeschischte : Typology and the Helix of History 127 Appendix One : Notes Toward a Protestant Poetic 137 Appendix Two ...
... Augustine and Bergson 78 8 Time , Literature , and Literary Criticism 88 9 Time in Shakespeare 104 10 Heilsgeschischte : Typology and the Helix of History 127 Appendix One : Notes Toward a Protestant Poetic 137 Appendix Two ...
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... Augustine and Boethius , to roots in the Christian Pla- tonism of Clement of Alexandria . The influence of this tradition and its importance for Renaissance humanism have been overshadowed , on the one hand , by a scholarly infatuation ...
... Augustine and Boethius , to roots in the Christian Pla- tonism of Clement of Alexandria . The influence of this tradition and its importance for Renaissance humanism have been overshadowed , on the one hand , by a scholarly infatuation ...
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... Augustine to fashion a philosophy that inter- preted temporal passage as the necessary condition of experience ... Augustine and Bergson ) . The follow- ing chapter contrasts the future - oriented concept of time in late — medieval and ...
... Augustine to fashion a philosophy that inter- preted temporal passage as the necessary condition of experience ... Augustine and Bergson ) . The follow- ing chapter contrasts the future - oriented concept of time in late — medieval and ...
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... Augustine - with the past - obsessed vision , traceable in large part to Bergson , that is so prevalent in twentieth - century literature ( Proust , Joyce , Woolf , Faulkner ) and that has been tacitly carried over by modern literary ...
... Augustine - with the past - obsessed vision , traceable in large part to Bergson , that is so prevalent in twentieth - century literature ( Proust , Joyce , Woolf , Faulkner ) and that has been tacitly carried over by modern literary ...
Inhalt
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TIME | 67 |
Notes Toward a Protestant Poetic | 137 |
Translations from Pascals Pensées | 154 |
Notes | 157 |
Bibliography | 185 |
Index | 195 |
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