The aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas

Abstract

Preface Translator's Note Aesthetics in Medieval Culture Historiography The Medieval Aesthetic Sensibility Thomas Aquinas The Possibility of Aesthetic Pleasure Plan of the Research Beauty as a Transcendental The Problem The Aesthetic Vision of Things Aquinas's Texts Modern Interpretations Beauty as a Transcendental in Thirteenth-Century Philosophy The Function and Nature of the Aesthetic Visio The Problem Medieval Texts Aquinas's Texts The Aesthetic Visio Intellectual Intuition in Aquinas The Formal Criteria of Beauty The Texts The Concept of Form Proportion: The Historical Data The Concept of Proportion in Aquinas Integritas Claritas: The Historical Data Claritas in Aquinas Concrete Problems and Applications The Beauty of the Son of God The Beauty of Mankind The Beauty of Music Play and Playful Verse The Symbolical Attitude Universal Allegory Scriptural and Poetic Allegory Aquinas's Theory of Allegory Didactic Parabolism A Thomist Poetics Aquinas and Dante The Theory of Art Art and Invention The Ontology of Artistic Form Artistic Form and the Aesthetic On the Possible Autonomy of the Fine Arts The Ambiguity of Art's Autonomy Judgment and the Aesthetic Visio The Function of the Aesthetic Visio The Nature of the Aesthetic Visio Conclusion The Central Aporia in Aquinas's Aesthetics The Dissolution of the Concept of Form in Post-Thomistic Scholasticism Aesthetic Categories and Medieval Society Thomistic Methodology and Structuralist Methodology Notes Bibliography Glossary Index

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