A Hidden Wisdom: Medieval Contemplatives on Self-Knowledge, Reason, Love, Persons, and Immortality

ISBN-13: 9780198861683 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str.

Calvin Univ Professor Emerita Christina (Professor Emerita

Opis

Christina Van Dyke brings to light a rich and neglected philosophical tradition: the writings of mystical and contemplative thinkers, mainly women, from the 13th to the 15th century. She show us how much we can learn today from their ideas on self-knowledge, reason (and its limits), love, persons, and immortality and the afterlife.

Recenzje

In this excellent book, Dyke (Columbia Univ. and Calvin Univ.) offers a philosophical reading of medieval mysticism and mystical theology...Specialists in the field will profit from reading this volume as will newcomers and interested lay readers.

O autorze

Christina Van Dyke is Term Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and Emerita Professor of Philosophy at Calvin University; she received her PhD from the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University in 2000. Professor Van Dyke specializes in medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of gender and her recent work explores how these areas intersect in contemplative literature of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries. Associate editor of the Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, she has written extensively on metaphysics, persons, and the afterlife in the thought of Thomas Aquinas, on epistemology in Robert Grosseteste, and medieval contemplative philosophy, particularly that authored by women.