The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian TruthW.B. Eerdmans, 2003 - 448 pagina's "The Beauty of the Infinite" is a splendid extended essay in theological aesthetics. David Bentley Hart here meditates on the power of a Christian understanding of beauty and sublimity to rise above the violence -- both philosophical and literal -- characteristic of the postmodern world. The book begins by tracing the shifting use and nature of metaphysics in the thought of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lyotard, Derrida, Deleuze, Nancy, Levinas, and others. Hart pays special attention to Nietzsche's famous narrative of the will to power -- a narrative largely adopted by the world today -- and he offers an engaging revision (though not rejection) of the genealogy of nihilism, thereby highlighting the significant interruption that Christian thought introduced into the history of metaphysics. This discussion sets the stage for a retrieval of the classic Christian account of beauty and sublimity, and of the relation of both to the question of being. Written in the form of a "dogmatica minora," this main section of the book offers a pointed reading of the Christian story in four moments, or parts: Trinity, creation, salvation, and eschaton. Through a combination of narrative and argument throughout, Hart ends up demonstrating the power of Christian metaphysics not only to withstand the critiques of modern and postmodern thought but also to move well beyond them. Strikingly original and deeply rewarding, "The Beauty of the Infinite" is both a constructively critical account of the history of metaphysics and a compelling contribution to it. |
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... Deleuze , be called the " univocity of being . " While he is aware of and cites with approval the doctrine of ontological univocity usually ascribed ( largely inaccurately ) to Duns Scotus , it is Spinoza who exerts the most immediate ...
... Deleuze's understanding of analogy is excruciatingly unsophisticated ; he obviously does not grasp , for in- stance , the tortured issue of the analogia entis ( which , properly understood , cannot function as part of any simple scheme ...
... Deleuze touches upon this figure here , because this is also the only " Christ " Deleuze ever speaks about : a frail , in- ert , etiolated Christ , a placid , kindly , bovine , Fabian Christ , who withdraws from the storm of being ...
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The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth David Bentley Hart Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2004 |