Engaging with heady topics such as knowledge, meaningful agency, vitality, and gratitude, Ascent advances an argument regarding Milton's Paradise Lost and the role of the imagination in religion. Miltonists are offered not a contextualization of Milton's views relative to his contemporaries or predecessors, but rather an attempt to bring him into conversation with pressing topics of contemporary philosophy.
Engaging with heady topics such as knowledge, meaningful agency, vitality, and gratitude, Ascent advances an argument regarding Milton's Paradise Lost and the role of the imagination in religion. Miltonists are offered not a contextualization of Milton's views relative to his contemporaries or predecessors, but rather an attempt to bring him into conversation with pressing topics of contemporary philosophy.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Tzachi Zamir is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Zamir is the author of Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama (Princeton, 2006), Ethics and the Beast (Princeton, 2007), and Acts: Theater, Philosophy and the Performing Self (The University of Michigan Press, 2014). He is the editor of a forthcoming collection of articles on Hamlet and philosophy for Oxford University Press.
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* Acknowledgments * Introduction * 1. At the Base Camp Imagining * 2. First Climb Wisdom * 3. First Crossroad Knowledge * 4. Second Climb Meaningful Action * 5. Second Crossroad Purchase * 6. Third Climb Meaningless Action * 7. Third Crossroad Place * 8. Fourth Climb Receiving * 9. Fourth Crossroad Needs * 10. Fifth Climb Gratitude * 11. Fifth Crossroad Sin * 12. At the Summit *