The Idea of the Symbol

Some Nineteenth Century Comparisons with Coleridge

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Paperback, 224 blz. | Engels
Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2010
ISBN13: 9780521133982
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Cambridge University Press e druk, 2010 9780521133982
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The term 'symbol' is so widely used that it inevitably acquires contradictory meanings. In this interdisciplinary study of some nineteenth-century writers, Sister Mary Jadwiga has pinpointed and disentangled some of the imprecisions of its usage and the questions they raise. Are symbols distinct from their referents, or are the two inherently, and not only conventionally connected? How do symbols suggest something beyond themselves? What kind of knowledge do symbols give? The examination of the idea of symbol in the work of Coleridge, Carlyle, Newman, Dean Inge, George Tyrrell and George MacDonald shows how inconsistencies of usage, even within the work of one writer, are integral to different and imprecise thinking on such important questions as the relationship between the individual and the universal, Christianity and history, truth and analogy. This book will be of value to those interested in philosophy, history of language and students of literature, history and theology.

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ISBN13:9780521133982
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:224

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Preface; A note on notes; Introduction; 1. The concept of 'symbol'; 2. The term 'symbol' and its cognates in the thought of Coleridge; 3. Some contemporaries of Coleridge - chiefly Carlyle; 4. Newman; 5. Dean Inge, George Tyrrell and George MacDonald; 6. Some conclusions; Notes; bibliography; Index.

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