Seeing Things as They Are: G.K. Chesterton and the Drama of Meaning - Brossura

Reyburn, Duncan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0718895010 ISBN 13: 9780718895013

Casa editrice: Lutterworth Press, 2017

Riassunto

An examination of the philosophy underlying G.K. Chesterton's approach to perceiving the meaning in the world around us. The jovial journalist, philosopher, and theologian G.K. Chesterton felt that the world was almost always in permanent danger of being misjudged or even overlooked, and so the pursuit of understanding, insight, and awareness was his perpetual preoccupation. Being sensitive to the boundaries and possibilities of perception, he believed that it really was possible, albeit in a limited way, to see things as they are. Duncan Reyburn, marrying Chesterton's unique perspective with the discipline of philosophical hermeneutics, aims to outline what Chesterton can teach us about reading, interpreting, and participating in the drama of meaning as it unfolds before us in words and in the world. Chesterton's unique interpretive approach seems to be the implicit fascination of all Chesterton scholarship to date, and yet this book is the first to comprehensively focus on the issue. By taking Chesterton back to his philosophical roots - via his marginalia, his approach to literary criticism, his Platonist-Thomist metaphysics, and his Roman Catholic theology - Reyburn explicitly and compellingly tackles the philosophical assumptions and goals that underpin his unique posture towards reality.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Lutterworth Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0718895010
• ISBN 13: 9780718895013
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 310
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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