The dawn of the invisible
Subtitle: the reception of the platonic doctrine on beauty in the Christian middle ages : Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas of Cusa
By: Melanie Bender
Series: Wissenschaftliche Schriften der WWU Münster. Reihe II -- Bd. 2; Wissenschaftliche Schriften der WWU Münster -- Bd. 2.
Publisher: Verlagshaus Monsenstein und Vannerdat
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Münster
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9783840500060
Subjects: Aesthetics; Ancient Aesthetics; Neoplatonism; Comparative Aesthetics; History; Christianity
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Münster, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 370-400).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Plato's doctrine on beauty : the longing for the eternal; title: Beauty in Aristotle's writings and in early Neoplatonism; title: Beauty according to Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite : the non-cognitive unification with the beautiful-and-good; title: The doctrine on beauty in Albert the Great : the implicit aspiration of the beautiful; title: Beauty in the teaching of Thomas Aquinas : the repose of desire in cognition; title: The doctrine on beauty according to Nicholas of Cusa : the Iudex pulchritudinis; title: Conclusion.