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Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas
2022
Overview
A rich examination of the influence of Aristotle and
Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce
In this book, Fran O'Rourke examines the influence of Aristotle
and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both thinkers
fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which pervades the
author's oeuvre. O'Rourke demonstrates that Joyce was a
philosophical writer who engaged creatively with questions of
diversity and unity, identity, permanence and change, and the
reliability of knowledge.
Beginning with an introduction to each thinker, the book traces
Joyce's discovery of their works and his concrete engagement with
their thought. Aristotle and Aquinas equipped Joyce with
fundamental principles regarding reality, knowledge, and the soul,
which allowed him to shape his literary characters. Joyce
appropriated Thomistic concepts to elaborate an original and
personal aesthetic theory.
O'Rourke provides an annotated commentary on quotations from
Aristotle that Joyce entered into his famous Early Commonplace Book
and outlines their crucial significance for his writings. He also
provides an authoritative evaluation of Joyce's application of
Aquinas's aesthetic principles.
The first book to comprehensively illuminate the profound impact
of both the ancient and medieval thinker on the modernist writer,
Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas offers readers a rich
understanding of the intellectual background and philosophical
underpinnings of Joyce's work.
A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian
D. G. Knowles
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Subject
ISBN
0813069262, 9780813069265, 9780813072234, 0813072239
