The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas (Radius Books) - Hardcover

Eco, Umberto; Wertsch, James V.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091823595 ISBN 13: 9780091823597

Publisher: Radius, 1989

Synopsis

The well-known Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco discloses for the first time to English-speaking readers the unsuspected richness, breadth, complexity, and originality of the aesthetic theories advanced by the influential medieval thinker Thomas Aquinas, heretofore known principally as a scholastic theologian.

About this title

Synopsis:

This is a reconstruction of the medieval mind and particularly of the medieval ideas of art and beauty. In this volume Eco explores the richness, breadth and originality of the aesthetic theories advanced by Thomas Aquinas, a theologian of repute in the Middle Ages. Eco sets the stage with a vivid account of the aesthetic and artistic sensibility that flourished in medieval times. The author looks at Aquinas' reflections on God, mankind, music, poetry and literature and shows how centuries later Thomas Aquinas' concept of beauty emerged in the writings of the young James Joyce. Umberto Eco also wrote "The Name of the Rose".

About the Author:

Umberto Eco Professor Emeritus at the University of Bologna and is the author of many books, including Foucault's Pendulum and Six Walks in the Fictional Woods.

About this edition

• Publisher: Radius
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0091823595
• ISBN 13: 9780091823597
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288