Jonathan Morton (King's C Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in French

The Roman de la Rose in Its Philosophical Context

Art, Nature, and Ethics

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the complex thirteenth-century poem Roman de la rose in the light of the philosophical ideas of its time and shows the range and scope of the poem's dialogue with pressing philosophical questions at the time it was written.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780198816669
• ISBN-10: 0198816669
• Artikelnr.: 49139349

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Morton is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in French at King's College London, specializing in medieval literature and intellectual history. He completed his DPhil at New College, Oxford where he was a Junior Research Fellow while teaching at Paris-X, Sciences-Po Paris, and Columbia University. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming collection of essays entitled Medieval Thought Experiments: Poetry, Hypothesis, and Experience in the European Middle Ages and is currently working on a project about ingenuity, the imagination, and the history of medieval science and technology.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Inconsistent Philosophy: Authority, Meaning, and the Poetics of
the Indefinite
* 2: The Art itself is Nature: Art, Nature, and Ethics in the Roman de
la rose
* 3: Rational Animals, Bestial Hypocrites: Poetry's Compromised
Pedagogy
* 4: The Golden Age: Primitive Fantasies of Artificial Nature
* 5: Usury, Avarice, and Infinite Desire
* 6: Making and Worshiping Idols: Desire, Imagination, and the End of
the Rose
* Conclusion: Philosophical Erotics