Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Spell of John Duns Scotus

ISBN-13: 9781474464604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 160 str.

University of Edinburgh (Retired John (Reader in Philosophy

Opis

The early medieval Scottish philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus shook traditional doctrines of universality and particularity by arguing for a metaphysics of 'formal distinction'. Why did the nineteenth-century poet and self-styled philosopher Gerard Manley Hopkins find this revolutionary teaching so appealing? John Llewelyn answers this question by casting light on various neologisms introduced by Hopkins and reveals how Hopkins endorses Scotus claim that being and existence are grounded in doing and willing. Drawing on modern responses to Scotus made by Heidegger, Peirce, Arendt, Leibniz, Hume, Reid, Derrida and Deleuze, Llewelyn's own response shows by way of bonus why it would be a pity to suppose that the rewards of reading Scotus and Hopkins are available only to those who share their theological presuppositions.

Spis treści

Part I:
1. The Crux
2. Instress Scaped and Inscape Stressed
3. Parsing the Poem of Parmenides
4. Hopkins’s Double Discovery, of Scotus and of Himself
5. Some Transcendentals
6. Another Transcendental?

Part II:
7. Seeming, Observing and Observance
8. Peirce’s Post-Kantian Categories
9. Ecceity, Ipseity and Existents
10. Being as Doing
11. From Method of Ignorance to Way of Love
12. Categories and Transcendentals Transcended

Afterword
Notes
Selective Bibliography
Index