John Henry Newman's legacy as a theologian, historian, and spiritual teacher presents itself to contemporary students through the inescapable prism of his person. Few theological writers of the modern era carry with them such a biographical pungency that even mature scholars (such as Frank M. Turner in his unfortunately tendentious...
John Henry Newman's legacy as a theologian, historian, and spiritual teacher presents itself to contemporary students through the inescapable prism of his person. Few theological writers of the modern era carry with them such a biographical pungency that even mature scholars (such as Frank M. Turner in his unfortunately tendentious 2002 biography) are lured by Newman the human being - even as they struggle to discern the coherence of Newman's thought. Rather than fight against this grain, or sequestering Newman's magnetic biography away in a preliminary "life of" chapter, Mark McIntosh harnesses the personal interest and intrigue of Newman's life in assisting students to get through the difficult features of Newman's thought. By proceeding through Newman's most enduring works chronologically, he can show the dramatic personal background and inner momentum that help to make sense of the cardinal's sometimes allusive style and his often cloaked polemical agenda - features that regularly make a deeper understanding of Newman quite elusive.
From pre-Socratics to the literature of his own days, Samuel Beckett spent his early years absorbing all he could of Western European literature, art, philosophy and science. Yet his interest in scientific disciplines and methodologies, essential to his writing, has been largely neglected. *Samuel Beckett and Science* returns to the empirical roots of his thought.
Ackerley works closely with Beckett's 1930s notebooks, tracing the chronological movement in his writings from ancient Greek science to theories of relativity. These notebooks, where extensive readings are recorded, underlie Ackerley's argument that the paradoxes informing the first works are essential to understanding Beckett's later support of ignorance.
Focusing on physics - both in Beckett's sense of his physical body and his sense of time and motion in the context of his writing - enables Ackerley to set the physical, biological and mathematical sciences next to literature, philosophy, religion and epistemology: an inter-disciplinary approach that crucially illustrates how the scientific method provides an effective procedure for exploring Beckettian uncertainty.
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John Henry Newman's legacy as a theologian, historian, and spiritual teacher presents itself to contemporary students through the inescapable prism of his person. Few theological writers of the modern era carry with them such a biographical pungency that even mature scholars (such as Frank M. Turner in his unfortunately tendentious...
John Henry Newman's legacy as a theologian, historian, and spiritual teacher presents itself to contemporary students through the inescapable prism of his person. Few theological writers of the modern era carry with them such a biographical pungency that even mature scholars (such as Frank M. Turner in his unfortunately tendentious 2002 biography) are lured by Newman the human being - even as they struggle to discern the coherence of Newman's thought. Rather than fight against this grain, or sequestering Newman's magnetic biography away in a preliminary "life of" chapter, Mark McIntosh harnesses the personal interest and intrigue of Newman's life in assisting students to get through the difficult features of Newman's thought. By proceeding through Newman's most enduring works chronologically, he can show the dramatic personal background and inner momentum that help to make sense of the cardinal's sometimes allusive style and his often cloaked polemical agenda - features that regularly make a deeper understanding of Newman quite elusive.
From pre-Socratics to the literature of his own days, Samuel Beckett spent his early years absorbing all he could of Western European literature, art, philosophy and science. Yet his interest in scientific disciplines and methodologies, essential to his writing, has been largely neglected. *Samuel Beckett and Science* returns to the empirical roots of his thought.
Ackerley works closely with Beckett's 1930s notebooks, tracing the chronological movement in his writings from ancient Greek science to theories of relativity. These notebooks, where extensive readings are recorded, underlie Ackerley's argument that the paradoxes informing the first works are essential to understanding Beckett's later support of ignorance.
Focusing on physics - both in Beckett's sense of his physical body and his sense of time and motion in the context of his writing - enables Ackerley to set the physical, biological and mathematical sciences next to literature, philosophy, religion and epistemology: an inter-disciplinary approach that crucially illustrates how the scientific method provides an effective procedure for exploring Beckettian uncertainty.
Newman (Guides For The Perplexed Series)$89.99
Koorong code407328
ISBN9780567284372
Pages176
PublisherBloomsbury Continuum Publishing Group
Publication date03 July 2014
Dimensions28 x 136 x 216mm
Weight0.503kg
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