Beauty, Art, and the Polis

, by Ramos, Alice; McInerny, Ralph M.

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ISBN: 9780966922622 | 096692262X
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/1/2000

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Editor's Note

Introduction: ``A Bracelet of Bright Hair About the Bone''

(10)

Ralph McInerny

PART I The Foundations of Beauty, Art, and Creativity

``Radiance'': The Metaphysical Foundations of Maritain's Aesthetics

(9)

John G. Trapani, Jr.

The Agent Intellect and the Energies of Intelligence

(14)

Donald Haggerty

Form and Fluidity: The Aquinian Roots of Maritain's Doctrine of the Spiritual Preconscious

(11)

Matthew Cuddeback

Scholastic Hylomorphism and Western Art: From the Gothic to the Baroque

(13)

Christopher M. Cullen, S.J.

On the Ontological Priority of Ends and Its Relevance to the Narrative Arts

(12)

Francis Slade

Beauty, Mind, and the Universe

(15)

Alice Ramos

Dante, Aquinas, and the Roots of the Modern Aesthetization of Reality

(14)

Patrick Downey

PART II The Arts, The Artist, and Interpretations

Art's Invaluable Uselessness

(18)

Gregory J. Kerr

Portraits of the Artist: Joyce, Nietzsche, and Aquinas

117

(21)

Thomas S. Hibbs

The Novel as Practical Wisdom

138

(9)

Daniel McInerny

The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Annunciation in Anne Sexton's ``The Fierceness of Female''

147

(13)

Carrie Rehak

Music and Religion in Gilson's Philosophy of Art

160

(16)

Ralph Nelson

Maritain on Music: His Debt to Cocteau

176

(14)

Stephen Schloesser, S.J.

Maritain and Gilson on Painting

190

(10)

Desmond J. FitzGerald

Incarnate Beauty: Maritain and the Aesthetic Experience of Contemporary Icons

200

(11)

Katherine Anne Osenga

PART III Art, Morality, and the Polis

Dangerous Music

211

(13)

Wayne H. Harter

Epiphany and Authenticity: The Aesthetic Vision of Charles Taylor

224

(13)

Brian J. Braman

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Aesthetic in Moral Imagination

237

(8)

James P. Mesa

Is Medicine Today Still an Art?

245

(14)

John F. Morris

Art: A ``Political'' Good?

259

(10)

Jeanne M. Heffernan

The Arts and Authority

269

(18)

Joseph W. Koterski, S.J.

Social Justice as a Work of Art in Action

287

(14)

Henk E. S. Woldring

Contributors

301

(5)

Index

306

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