Beauty, Art, and the Polis

Edited by Alice Ramos

© Copyright 2000 by the Maritain Association

Contents

• Title Page and Front Matter
• Editor's Note
• Introduction: "A Bracelet of Bright Hair About the Bone" / Ralph Mcinerny

PART I THE FOUNDATIONS OF BEAUTY, ART, AND CREATIVITY

1. "Radiance": The Metaphysical Foundations of Maritain's Aesthetics / John G. Trapani, Jr.
2. The Agent Intellect and the Energies of Intelligence / Donald Haggerty
3. Form and Fluidity: The Aquinian Roots of Maritain's Doctrine of the Spiritual Preconscious / Matthew Cuddeback
4. Scholastic Hylomorphism and Western Art: From the Gothic to the Baroque / Christopher M. Cullen. S.J.
5. On the Ontological Priority of Ends and Its Relevance to the Narrative Arts / Francis Slade
6. Beauty, Mind, and the Universe / Alice Ramos
7. Dante, Aquinas, and the Roots of the Modern Aesthetization of Reality / Patrick Downey

PART II - THE ARTS, THE ARTIST, AND INTERPRETATIONS

1. Art's Invaluable Uselessness / Gregory J. Kerr
2. Portraits of the Artist: Joyce, Nietzsche, and Aquinas / Thomas S. Hibbs
3. The Novel as Practical Wisdom / Daniel Mcinerny
4. The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Annunciation in Anne Sexton's "The Fierceness of Female" / Carrie Rehak
5. Music and Religion in Gilson's Philosophy of Art / Ralph Nelson
6. Maritain on Music: His Debt to Cocteau / Stephen Schloesser, S.J.
7. Maritain and Gilson on Painting / Desmond J. FitzGerald
8. Incarnate Beauty: Maritain and the Aesthetic Experience of Contemporary Icons / Katherine Anne Osenga

PART III - ART, MORALITY, AND THE POLIS

1. Dangerous Music / Wayne H. Harter
2. Epiphany and Authenticity: The Aesthetic Vision of Charles Taylor / Brian J. Braman
3. The Good. the Bad, and the Ugly: The Aesthetic in Moral Imagination / James P. Mesa
4. Is Medicine Today Still an Art? / John F. Morris
5. Art: A "Political" Good? / Jeanne M. Heffernan
6. The Arts and Authority / Joseph W. Koterski, S.J.
7. Social Justice as a Work of Art in Action / Henk E. S. Woldring

• Contributors
• Index