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Voices on Joyce gathers together interpretations of Joyce's work by
scholars in a wide span of disciplines: music, history, literature,
philosophy, sport, geography, modern languages, economics, theatre
studies and law. The depth and range of James Joyce's relationship
with key historical, intellectual and cultural issues in the early
twentieth century are explored, including: the growth of Dublin as
a city, the advance of Irish separatist nationalism, criminal
trials in late nineteenth-century Ireland, the influence of
Classical authors such as Aristotle and Ovid, the Irish Literary
Revival, the value of operatic music, notions of the aesthetic and
of a democratic readership, and the history and social import of
Jewish communities and traditions. The twenty essays in this
collection draw out the openness and pluralism of Joyce's writing
and underscore the need for readings of his work from a large
variety of diverging perspectives. The wide ranging voices in this
collection are composed by present and former UCD academics, and
constitute a unique reckoning with the legacy of Joyce by members
of his alma mater.A portrait of Joyce emerges as a writer deeply
embedded in Irish intellectual discourses and as a figure of vital
on-going importance in the social and cultural debates of
twenty-first century Ireland. Photos interleaving the essays by the
modernist and photojournalist, Lee Miller, taken in Dublin in 1946,
provide vivid images of Joycean locations and of their artistic
reimagining.
Although Pseudo-Dionysius was, after Aristotle, the author whom
Thomas Aquinas quoted most frequently, surprisingly little
attention has been paid to the role of this Neoplatonist thinker in
the formation of Aquinas' philosophy. Fran O'Rourke's book is the
only available work that investigates the pervasive influence of
Pseudo-Dionysius on Aquinas, while at the same time examining the
latter's profound originality. Central themes discussed by O'Rourke
include knowledge of the absolute, existence as the first and most
universal perfection, the diffusion of creation, the hierarchy of
creatures, and their return to God as final end. O'Rourke devotes
special attention to the Neoplatonist element in Aquinas' notion of
"being" as intensity or degree of perfection. He also considers the
relation of being and goodness in light of Aquinas' nuanced
reversal of Dionysius' theory of the primacy of the good, and
Aquinas' arguments for the transcendental nature of goodness.
From 1968 until his death in 2003, Gerald Hanratty was professor of
philosophy at University College Dublin. In this volume dedicated
to his memory, Fran O'Rourke has assembled twenty-six essays
reflecting Hanratty's broad philosophical interests, dealing with
central questions of human existence and the ultimate meaning of
the universe. Whether engaged in historical investigations into
Gnosticism or the Enlightenment, Hanratty was concerned with
fundamental themes in the philosophy of religion and philosophical
anthropology. Human Destinies brings together a wide range of
approaches to these central questions. Included are historical
studies of classical thinkers of the ancient and medieval periods
(Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas) and studies of numerous
modern authors (among them, Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, Marcel,
Adorno, Derrida, Plantinga, Scruton, and many others).
Contributors: Fran O'Rourke, Peter L. P. Simpson, Rowland Stout,
Andrew Smith, Eoin G. Cassidy, Cyril O'Regan, Michael Nolan,
Patrick Masterson, Tim Lynch, James R. O'Shea, Ciaran McGlynn,
Maria Baghramian, Mark Dooley, Brendan Purcell, Brendan Sweetman,
Ciaran Benson, Richard Kearney, Dermot Moran, Belinda McKeon, Brian
Elliott, Eileen Brennan, Liberato Santoro-Brienza, Brian O'Connor,
Timothy Mooney, David Walsh, and Gerard Casey.
A rich examination of the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas
on James JoyceIn this book, Fran O'Rourke examines the influence of
Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both
thinkers fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which
pervades the author's oeuvre. O'Rourke demonstrates that Joyce was
a philosophical writer who engaged creatively with questions of
diversity and unity, identity, permanence and change, and the
reliability of knowledge. Beginning with an introduction to each
thinker, the book traces Joyce's discovery of their works and his
concrete engagement with their thought. Aristotle and Aquinas
equipped Joyce with fundamental principles regarding reality,
knowledge, and the soul, which allowed him to shape his literary
characters. Joyce appropriated Thomistic concepts to elaborate an
original and personal aesthetic theory. O'Rourke provides an
annotated commentary on quotations from Aristotle which Joyce
entered into his famous Early Commonplace Book and outlines their
crucial significance for his writings. He also provides an
authoritative evaluation of Joyce's application of Aquinas's
aesthetic principles. The first book to comprehensively illuminate
the profound impact of both the ancient and medieval thinker on the
modernist writer, Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas offers readers a
rich understanding of the intellectual background and philosophical
underpinnings of Joyce's work.
A rich examination of the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas
on James JoyceIn this book, Fran O'Rourke examines the influence of
Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both
thinkers fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which
pervades the author's oeuvre. O'Rourke demonstrates that Joyce was
a philosophical writer who engaged creatively with questions of
diversity and unity, identity, permanence and change, and the
reliability of knowledge. Beginning with an introduction to each
thinker, the book traces Joyce's discovery of their works and his
concrete engagement with their thought. Aristotle and Aquinas
equipped Joyce with fundamental principles regarding reality,
knowledge, and the soul, which allowed him to shape his literary
characters. Joyce appropriated Thomistic concepts to elaborate an
original and personal aesthetic theory. O'Rourke provides an
annotated commentary on quotations from Aristotle which Joyce
entered into his famous Early Commonplace Book and outlines their
crucial significance for his writings. He also provides an
authoritative evaluation of Joyce's application of Aquinas's
aesthetic principles. The first book to comprehensively illuminate
the profound impact of both the ancient and medieval thinker on the
modernist writer, Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas offers readers a
rich understanding of the intellectual background and philosophical
underpinnings of Joyce's work.
What Happened in and to Moral Philosophy in the Twentieth Century?
is a volume of essays originally presented at University College
Dublin in 2009 to celebrate the eightieth birthday of Alasdair
MacIntyre-a protagonist at the center of that very question. What
marks this collection is the unusual range of approaches and
perspectives, representing divergent and even contradictory
positions. Such variety reflects MacIntyre's own intellectual
trajectory, which led him to engage successively with various
schools of thought: analytic, Marxist, Christian, atheist,
Aristotelian, Augustinian, and Thomist. This collection presents a
unique profile of twentieth-century moral philosophy and is itself
an original contribution to ongoing debate. The volume begins with
Alasdair MacIntyre's fascinating philosophical self-portrait, "On
Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the Twentieth
Century," which charts his own intellectual development. The first
group of essays considers MacIntyre's revolutionary contribution to
twentieth-century moral philosophy: its value in understanding and
guiding human action, its latent philosophical anthropology, its
impetus in the renewal of the Aristotelian tradition, and its
application to contemporary interests. The next group of essays
considers the complementary and competing traditions of emotivism,
Marxism, Thomism, and phenomenology. A third set of essays presents
thematic analyses of such topics as evolutionary ethics,
accomplishment and just desert, relativism, evil, and the
inescapability of ethics. MacIntyre responds with a final essay,
"What Next?" which addresses questions raised by contributors to
the volume.
Although Pseudo-Dionysius was, after Aristotle, the author whom
Thomas Aquinas quoted most frequently, surprisingly little
attention has been paid to the role of this Neoplatonist thinker in
the formation of Aquinas' philosophy. Fran O'Rourke's book is the
only available work that investigates the pervasive influence of
Pseudo-Dionysius, yet the profound originality of Aquinas. Central
themes discussed by O'Rourke include knowledge of the absolute,
existence as the first and most universal perfection, the diffusion
of creation, the hierarchy of creatures, and their return to God as
final end. O'Rourke devotes special attention to the Neoplatonist
element in Aquinas' notion of being as intensity or degree of
perfection. He also considers the relation of being and goodness in
light of Aquinas' nuanced reversal of Dionysius' theory of the
primacy of the good; and Aquinas' arguments for the transcendental
nature of goodness. The University of Notre Press is pleased to
make this significant work available for the first time in
paperback.
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