Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost

ISBN-13: 9780190695088 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 216 str.

Tzachi Zamir

Opis

Engaging with heady topics such as knowledge, meaningful agency, vitality, and gratitude, Ascent advances an argument regarding Milton's Paradise Lost and the role of the imagination in religion. Miltonists are offered not a contextualization of Milton's views relative to his contemporaries or predecessors, but rather an attempt to bring him into conversation with pressing topics of contemporary philosophy.

Recenzje

This book brings to bear on its topic the learning and insights both of philosophy and of literary criticism. It is a sensitive and thoughtful exploration of Milton's poetry and philosophical theology. Both those who are interested in understanding the power of Milton's poetry and those who share with Milton an interest in philosophical theology will find this book helpful.

O autorze

Tzachi Zamir is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Zamir is the author of Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama (Princeton, 2006), Ethics and the Beast (Princeton, 2007), and Acts: Theater, Philosophy and the Performing Self (The University of Michigan Press, 2014). He is the editor of a forthcoming collection of articles on Hamlet and philosophy for Oxford University Press.