The Eclipse and Recovery of Beauty: A Lonergan Approach

by John Dadosky and John D. Dadosky

Book Overview

According to the Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, a world that has lost sight of beauty is a world riddled with skepticism, moral and aesthetic relativism, conflicting religious worldviews, and escalating ecological crises. In The Eclipse and Recovery of Beauty, John D. Dadosky uses Kierkegaard and Nietzsche's negative aesthetics to outline the context of that loss, and presents an argument for reclaiming beauty as a metaphysical property...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487522096
• ISBN13: 9781487522094
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher