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Author Pfau, Thomas.

Title Incomprehensible Certainty : Metaphysics and Hermeneutics of the Image.

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

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Description 1 online resource (813 pages)
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Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Writing the Image -- PART 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 -- PART 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-Cézanne-Rilke -- Works Cited -- Index
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Subject Imagery (Psychology) -- Philosophy.
Imagery (Psychology)
Philosophy.
Other Form: Print version: Pfau, Thomas. Incomprehensible Certainty. Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2022 9780268202484
ISBN 9780268202507 (electronic book)
0268202508 (electronic book)