A Hidden Wisdom
Medieval Contemplatives on Self-Knowledge, Reason, Love, Persons, and Immortality
(Sprache: Englisch)
Christina Van Dyke brings to light a rich and neglected philosophical tradition: the writings of mystical and contemplative thinkers, mainly women, from the 13th to the 15th century. She show us how much we can learn today from their ideas on...
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Christina Van Dyke brings to light a rich and neglected philosophical tradition: the writings of mystical and contemplative thinkers, mainly women, from the 13th to the 15th century. She show us how much we can learn today from their ideas on self-knowledge, reason (and its limits), love, persons, and immortality and the afterlife.
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Christina Van Dyke brings to light a rich and neglected philosophical tradition: the writings of mystical and contemplative thinkers, mainly women, from the 13th to the 15th century. She show us how much we can learn today from their ideas on self-knowledge, reason (and its limits), love, persons, and immortality and the afterlife.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „A Hidden Wisdom “
1 Mysticism, Methodology, and Epistemic Justice; Interlude One: Who is this book about? Timeline of Figures; 2 Self-Knowledge; Interlude Two: What is a beguine?; 3 Reasons and its Limits; Interlude Three: When did reading become a sign of religious devotion for women?; 4 Love and the Will; Interlude Four: Where does the erotic imagery of medieval mystics come from?; 5 Persons; Interlude Five: Why Do Medieval Women Talk like They Hate Themselves?; 6 Immortality and the Afterlife
Autoren-Porträt von Christina Van Dyke
Christina Van Dyke is Term Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and Emerita Professor of Philosophy at Calvin University; she received her PhD from the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University in 2000. Professor Van Dyke specializes in medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of gender and her recent work explores how these areas intersect in contemplative literature of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries. Associate editor of the Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, she has written extensively on metaphysics, persons, and the afterlife in the thought of Thomas Aquinas, on epistemology in Robert Grosseteste, and medieval contemplative philosophy, particularly that authored by women.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Christina Van Dyke
- 2022, 256 Seiten, Maße: 13,9 x 22,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198861680
- ISBN-13: 9780198861683
- Erscheinungsdatum: 10.11.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
In this excellent book, Dyke (Columbia Univ. and Calvin Univ.) offers a philosophical reading of medieval mysticism and mystical theology...Specialists in the field will profit from reading this volume as will newcomers and interested lay readers. Choice
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