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Understanding the Medieval Meditative Ascent - Augustine, Anselm, Boethius, and Dante (Paperback)
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Understanding the Medieval Meditative Ascent - Augustine, Anselm, Boethius, and Dante (Paperback)
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The Confessions, Proslogion, and Consolation of Philosophy, like
the Divine Comedy, all enact Platonist ascents. Each has a pilgrim
figure, guided dialogically on a journey of understanding. Each
rises to progressively higher levels of understanding and
culminates in a supreme intellectual vision. The higher levels
contain and surpass earlier understandings and thereby reconfigure
them, but implicitly, for the questing pilgrim rarely stops to
reflect on the stages of his ascent. Augustine's conclusions about
time in book 11, for example, embrace memory as ""time past,"" but
he does not reconsider his account of memory in book 10 from this
new perspective. He leaves this task for his reader's meditation,
as a spiritual exercise. In this way, a Platonist ascent generates
implied meditative meanings, which scholars have explored only in
part. Each work calls us to read forward, on its journey of
understanding, and to meditate backwards on the stages of the
ascent and the relations between them. Augustine, Anselm, Boethius,
and Dante wrote for readers experienced in meditating on the Bible,
adept at exploring relations between far distant passages. They
designed these works as spiritual exercises for the same kind of
reading and meditation. Understanding the Medieval Meditative
Ascent uses literary analysis to discover new philosophical
meanings in these works. Clearly written in nontechnical language,
its account of their literary structures and of the hidden meanings
they generate will inform nonspecialist and specialist alike.
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