Lands of Likeness

For a Poetics of Contemplation

AvKevin Hart

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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An original and profound exploration of contemplation from philosopher, theologian, and poet Kevin Hart. In Lands of Likeness, Kevin Hart develops a new hermeneutics of contemplation through a meditation on Christian thought and secular philosophy. Drawing on Kant, Schopenhauer, Coleridge, and Husserl, Hart first charts the emergence of contemplation in and beyond the Romantic era. Next, Hart shows this hermeneutic at work in poetry by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and others. Delivered in its original form as the prestigious Gifford Lectures, Lands of Likeness is a revelatory meditation on contemplation for the modern world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-10-06
Mått:152 x 229 x 30 mm
Vikt:708 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:432
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226827568

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Kevin Hart is the Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Theology at the University of Virginia. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, theology, and criticism, including Morning Knowledge, Poetry and Revelation: For a Phenomenology of Religious Poetry and The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred, which was also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Recensioner i media

"[An] arresting invitation to stop and see. Lands of Likeness . . . could not be more timely. For what it commends is nothing other than a way of being in the world that is neither grasping nor hurried, that is minutely attentive to the particularity of things rather than forever looking past them or behind or beneath, that constrains egoism in order to create space for the kinds of encounter that leave us transformed in their wake. It is a book that means to stop us in our tracks, permitting us to look, to linger, to wonder at what is. Or, as Hart rather touchingly writes, for all its theoretical sophistication and immense learning, Lands of Likeness is finally a book ‘about leaves and trees, birds and snails’."

Innehållsförteckning

Note on Citations and ConventionsIntroduction1: From Templum to Contemplation2: The Sabbath of the Idea3: Hermeneutic of Contemplation4: Contemplation with Kestrel5: Fascination6: Consideration7: From Supreme Being to Supreme Fiction8: Contemplation with Noisy Birds9: Contemplating "the True Mystery"10: "On Course but Destinationless"11: Mystère and Mystique12: "To Contemplate the Radical Soul"Afterword: Poem as TemplumAcknowledgmentsGlossaryNotesIndex