Infinity, faith and time : Christian humanism and Renaissance literature / / John Spencer Hill

• Autore: Hill John Spencer <1943->
• Pubblicazione: Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xiv, 200 p. ; ; 24 cm
• Disciplina: 809.8/94/0903
• Soggetto topico: European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism; Humanism in literature; Infinite in literature; Time in literature
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- The Expanding Universe -- Fides Quærens Intellectum -- The Aristotelian Cosmos -- Nicholas of Cusa and the New Astronomy -- Rational Spirituality and Empirical Rationalism -- Chorismos and Methexis: Pascal, Traherne, Milton -- Time -- Chronos and Kairos -- Inner Time: Augustine and Bergson -- Time, Literature, and Literary Criticism -- Time in Shakespeare -- Heilsgeschischte: Typology and the Helix of History -- Notes Toward a Protestant Poetic -- Translations from Pascal’s Pensées -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In Part 1 Hill examines the effect of the idea of spatial infinity on seventeenth-century literature, arguing that the metaphysical cosmology of Nicholas of Cusa provided Renaissance writers, such as Pascal, Traherne, and Milton, with a way to construe the vastness of space as the symbol of human spiritual potential. Focusing on time in Part 2, Hill reveals that, faced with the inexorability of time, Christian humanists turned to St Augustine to develop a philosophy that interpreted temporal passage as the necessary condition of experience without making it the essence or ultimate measure of human purpose. Hill's analysis centres on Shakespeare, whose experiments with the shapes of time comprise a gallery of heuristic time-centred fictions that attempt to explain the consequences of human existence in time. Infinity, Faith, and Time reveals that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a period during which individuals were able, with more success than in later times, to make room for new ideas without rejecting old beliefs.
• Titolo autorizzato: Infinity, faith and time
• ISBN: 1-282-85471-2; 9786612854712; 0-7735-6681-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825150403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. : Series two.