Author: D. C. Schindler File Type: epub The computer has increasingly become the principal model for the mind, which means our most basic experience of reality is as mediated through a screen, or stored in a cloud. As a result, we are losing a sense of the concrete and imposing presence of the real, and the fundamental claim it makes on us, a claim that Iris Murdoch once described as the essence of love. In response to this postmodern predicament, the present book aims to draw on the classical philosophical tradition in order to articulate a robust philosophical anthropology, and a new appreciation of the importance of the transcendental properties of being beauty, goodness, and truth. The book begins with a reflection on the importance of metaphysics in our contemporary setting, and then presents the human persons relation to the world under the signs of the transcendentals beauty is the gracious invitation into reality, goodness is the self-gift of freedom in response to this invitation, and truth is the consummation of our relation to the real in knowledge. The book culminates in an argument for why love is ultimately a matter of being, and why metaphysical reason in indispensable in faith. Philosopher D. C. Schindler defies the dragon of modernity, whose dominant thought patterns induce a life- and culture-threatening loss of reality and self. He offers life-giving proposals regarding love, being, and the transcendentals to restore us profoundly to the world and to ourselves as humans. Buy the book--you may divest yourself of others. Digest it, and revel in your already-involvement with a responsive reality--an involvement of intimate encounter and communion a reality that is love, fraught with beauty, goodness, and truth. --Esther Lightcap Meek, Geneva College Love and the Postmodern Predicamentis a treasure trove of philosophical riches. Schindler does not merely indicate the need to return to metaphysics to wrestle successfully with what he carefully and accurately describes as our postmodern predicament, but in fact leads us out of that predicament. His profound and original reflections on love, grounded in the transcendental properties of being, are a radical refashioning of traditional metaphysical principles. --Jonathan J. Sanford, University of Dallas In this rewarding little text, Schindler accomplishes something too rare among works of philosophyhe accommodates a wide audience and yet deftly draws the reader into deep metaphysical waters, into a consideration of some of the most profound and perennial philosophical concerns.Throughout, the timeliness of his reflections on love, beauty, God, and the good remains in clear view. This isa highly recommended work by an author of capacious intellect and generous spirit. --Lee M. Cole, Hillsdale College D. C. Schindler is Associate Professor of Metaphysics and Anthropology at The John Paul II Institute at The Catholic University of America. He is the author of The Perfection of Freedom Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel between the Ancients and the Moderns (2013). **About the Author D. C. Schindler is Associate Professor of Metaphysics and Anthropology at The John Paul II Institute at The Catholic University of America. He is the author of The Perfection of Freedom Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel between the Ancients and the Moderns (2013).

Author: Michael Hattaway File Type: pdf ReviewA wonderful, bracing guide to Early Modern literature and culture. I admire Hattaways deftness and skill at marking out the boundaries and illuminating what would otherwise lurk in the darkness. Stephen GreenblattA cliche-free zone, a most refreshing read for students as well as teachers. SederiRenaissance and Reformations is an extraordinary achievement Michael Hattaways compact study of Early Modern literature belies an astonishing command of the conditions of thought and writing that produced it and does so with an unusual citation of all forms and genres, major and minor and newly-discovered texts. As a result, he is able to take us into the imaginative processes of the time to show us the sheer pleasures these works held as no other study has done. Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts, AmherstSharp insights and fresh examples fill Michael Hattaways welcome book. He enlightens new readers and those who thought they knew that foreign country, early modern England - its high, low, middling culture, its performances and rulers and ruled. All become understandable and beguilingly strange in Hattaways volume. He admirably asks how questions not what questions and invites readers to think through ideas, texts, techniques, images, historical moments so they all become the readers own. A. R. Braunmuller, University of California, Los AngelesPut this on your reading-lists.Roger Pooley, Keele UniversityBook DescriptionDesigned for both students and general readers, this introduction to Renaissance and Reformation literature offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance. It considers the ways in which early modern writers constructed the past and designed the present, wrote about people and places, recovered and adapted classical genres, and tackled religious and secular controversies. All these topics are illustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early modern texts, including works by More, Erasmus, Wyatt, Spenser, Philip and Mary Sidney, Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare, Campion, Daniel, Donne, Southwell, Dekker, Taylor lsquothe water-poetrsquo, Aemilia Lanyer, Jonson, Chapman, Middleton, Mary Wroth, Ralegh, Greville, Wotton, Herbert and Milton. Throughout, readers are reminded that the consequences of the English reformations were as important as the better known influences of the Renaissance. This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious writing. ullAn introduction to early modern English literature for students and general readers. llConsiders the ways in which early modern writers construct the past, recover and adapt classical genres, write about people and places, and tackle religious and secular controversies. llIllustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early modern texts. llWriters represented include More, Erasmus, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton, as well as less well known authors. lulReviewA wonderful, bracing guide to Early Modern literature and culture. I admire Hattaways deftness and skill at marking out the boundaries and illuminating what would otherwise lurk in the darkness. Stephen GreenblattA cliche-free zone, a most refreshing read for students as well as teachers. SederiRenaissance and Reformations is an extraordinary achievement Michael Hattaways compact study of Early Modern literature belies an astonishing command of the conditions of thought and writing that produced it and does so with an unusual citation of all forms and genres, major and minor and newly-discovered texts. As a result, he is able to take us into the imaginative processes of the time to show us the sheer pleasures these works held as no other study has done. Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts, AmherstSharp insights and fresh examples fill Michael Hattaways welcome book. He enlightens new readers and those who thought they knew that foreign country, early modern England - its high, low, middling culture, its performances and rulers and ruled. All become understandable and beguilingly strange in Hattaways volume. He admirably asks how questions not what questions and invites readers to think through ideas, texts, techniques, images, historical moments so they all become the readers own. A. R. Braunmuller, University of California, Los AngelesPut this on your reading-lists.Roger Pooley, Keele UniversityBook DescriptionDesigned for both students and general readers, this introduction to Renaissance and Reformation literature offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance. It considers the ways in which early modern writers constructed the past and designed the present, wrote about people and places, recovered and adapted classical genres, and tackled religious and secular controversies. All these topics are illustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early modern texts, including works by More, Erasmus, Wyatt, Spenser, Philip and Mary Sidney, Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare, Campion, Daniel, Donne, Southwell, Dekker, Taylor lsquothe water-poetrsquo, Aemilia Lanyer, Jonson, Chapman, Middleton, Mary Wroth, Ralegh, Greville, Wotton, Herbert and Milton. Throughout, readers are reminded that the consequences of the English reformations were as important as the better known influences of the Renaissance.