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The Roman de la rose in its Philosophical Context - Art, Nature, and Ethics (Hardcover)
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The Roman de la rose in its Philosophical Context - Art, Nature, and Ethics (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
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The Roman de la rose in its Philosophical Context offers a new
interpretation of the long and complex medieval allegorical poem
written by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun in the thirteenth
century, a work that became one of the most influential works of
vernacular literature in the European Middle Ages. The scope and
sophistication of the poem's content, especially in Jean's
continuation, has long been acknowledged, but this is the first
book-length study to offer an in-depth analysis of how the Rose
draws on, and engages with, medieval philosophy, in particular with
the Aristotelianism that dominated universities in the thirteenth
century. It considers the limitations and possibilities of
approaching ideas through the medium of poetic fiction, whose lies
paradoxically promise truth and whose ambiguities and
self-contradiction make it hard to discern its positions. This
indeterminacy allows poetry to investigate the world and the self
in ways not available to texts produced in the Scholastic context
of universities, especially those of the University of Paris, whose
philosophical controversies in the 1270s form the backdrop against
which the poem is analysed. At the heart of the Rose are the three
ideas of art, nature, and ethics, which cluster around its central
subject: love. While the book offers larger claims about the Rose's
philosophical agenda, different chapters consider the specifics of
how it draws on, and responds to, Roman poetry, twelfth-century
Neoplatonism, and thirteenth-century Aristotelianism in broaching
questions about desire, epistemology, human nature, the
imagination, primitivism, the philosophy of art, and the ethics of
money.
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