3 The Art of Excess as a Medieval Aesthetic

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. General Editors’ Preface vii
4. Editors’ Introduction 1
5. Part I. Bodies/Pleasures: Embodiment, Affect and Forms of Life
6. 1 Augustine of Hippo in Medieval and Contemporary Dialogues on Embodiment 21
7. 2 Disability, Ableism and Anti-Ableism in Medieval Latin Philosophy and Theology 37
8. 3 The Art of Excess as a Medieval Aesthetic 58
9. 4 A Classroom of One’s Own: Medieval Conceptions of Women and Education 74
10. 5 Shame: A Phenomenological Re-examination of Aquinas’s Analysis 97
11. Part II. Soul and the World/Soul Beyond the World: Experience, Thought and Language
12. 6 Experience in Monastic Theology and Philosophy in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries 117
13. 7 Medieval Neoplatonism and the Dialectics of Being and Non-being 142
14. 8 Medieval Semiotics and Philosophy of Language (Ninth to Fourteenth Centuries) 160
15. 9 A Path to Identity: Meister Eckhart’s Ascesis of the Soul 185
16. 10 The Enigma of God and Dialogue in the Midst of an Epochal Threshold: The Case of Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) 200
17. Part III. Politics/Community: Justice, Injustice and Power
18. 11 Cosmopolitanism in the Medieval Arabic and Islamic World 217
19. 12 Intellectual Virtues and the Attention to Kairos in Maimonides and Dante 234
20. 13 Ethics of Property, Ethics of Poverty 249
21. 14 Humanity, Nature, Science and Politics in Renaissance Utopias 272
22. 15 Religion and Just War in the Conquest of America: Sepúlveda, Las Casas and Vitoria 283
23. Part IV. Repetitions: Tradition and Historical Inheritance
24. 16 A Gaping Lacuna: Gersonides’s Apparent Silence About Aristotle’s Ethics/Politics in the Context of the Judeo-Arabic Tradition 301
25. 17 Founding Body in Platonism: A Reconsideration of the Tradition from Origen to Cusa 317
26. 18 ‘Medieval Ethics’ in the History of Philosophy 332
27. 19 The Structural Causality of Specific Difference from Medieval Thought to Deleuze and Althusser 344
28. Notes on contributors 357
29. Index 361