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Transparency and Dissimulation analyses the configurations of
ancient neoplatonism in early modern English texts. In looking
closely at poems and prose writings by authors as diverse as Thomas
Wyatt, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Edward Herbert,
Andrew Marvell, Thomas Traherne, Thomas Browne and, last not least,
Aphra Behn, this study attempts to map the outlines of a
neoplatonic aesthetics in literary practice as well as to chart its
transformative potential in the shifting contexts of cultural
turbulency and denominational conflict in 16th- and 17th-century
England. As part of a "new", contextually aware, aesthetics, it
seeks to determine some of the functions neoplatonic structures -
such as forms of recursivity or certain modes of apophatic speech -
are capable of fulfilling in combination and interaction with
other, heterogeneous or even ideologically incompatible elements.
What emerges is a surprisingly versatile poetics of excess and
enigma, with strong Plotinian and Erigenist accents. This appears
to need the traditional ingredients of petrarchism or courtliness
only as material for the formation of new and dynamic wholes,
revealing its radical metaphysical potential above all in the way
it helps to resist the easy answers - in religion, science, or the
fashions of libertine love.
This volume is an inquiry into the philosophical, theological and
aesthetic relevance of perfection. The main focus is on medieval
and early modern arts. Contributions from English, German and
Romance language and literature, as well as from theology, look at
works from the Church fathers to Gottfried of Strasbourg, Dante,
Petrarca and Shakespeare, as well as Andrew Marvell.
The volume enquires into the relationship between philosophy and
aesthetics in Late Antiquity. Is the sensuous beauty of art a
medium for the highest thinkable truth? And if this can be called a
~aestheticsa (TM), how has it changed over the centuries and what
is its significance for the theory of art today? The contributors a
" experts in systematic philosophy and literary studies from a
variety of disciplines a " work on this transdisciplinary topic
using concrete examples from the Middle Ages to Post-modernism and
examine the scope and transformations of this fundamental insight
up to the present day.
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