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

Reyburn, Duncan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0718895010 ISBN 13: 9780718895013

Publisher: Lutterworth Press, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Duncan Reyburn is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lutterworth Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0718895010
• ISBN 13: 9780718895013
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 310