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Tables of Contents for Beauty, Art, and the Polis
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Editor's Note
ix
Introduction: ``A Bracelet of Bright Hair About the Bone''
1
10
Ralph McInerny
PART I The Foundations of Beauty, Art, and Creativity
``Radiance'': The Metaphysical Foundations of Maritain's Aesthetics
11
9
John G. Trapani, Jr.
The Agent Intellect and the Energies of Intelligence
20
14
Donald Haggerty
Form and Fluidity: The Aquinian Roots of Maritain's Doctrine of the Spiritual Preconscious
34
11
Matthew Cuddeback
Scholastic Hylomorphism and Western Art: From the Gothic to the Baroque
45
13
Christopher M. Cullen, S.J.
On the Ontological Priority of Ends and Its Relevance to the Narrative Arts
58
12
Francis Slade
Beauty, Mind, and the Universe
70
15
Alice Ramos
Dante, Aquinas, and the Roots of the Modern Aesthetization of Reality
85
14
Patrick Downey
PART II The Arts, The Artist, and Interpretations
Art's Invaluable Uselessness
99
18
Gregory J. Kerr
Portraits of the Artist: Joyce, Nietzsche, and Aquinas
117
21
Thomas S. Hibbs
The Novel as Practical Wisdom
138
9
Daniel McInerny
The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Annunciation in Anne Sexton's ``The Fierceness of Female''
147
13
Carrie Rehak
Music and Religion in Gilson's Philosophy of Art
160
16
Ralph Nelson
Maritain on Music: His Debt to Cocteau
176
14
Stephen Schloesser, S.J.
Maritain and Gilson on Painting
190
10
Desmond J. FitzGerald
Incarnate Beauty: Maritain and the Aesthetic Experience of Contemporary Icons
200
11
Katherine Anne Osenga
PART III Art, Morality, and the Polis
Dangerous Music
211
13
Wayne H. Harter
Epiphany and Authenticity: The Aesthetic Vision of Charles Taylor
224
13
Brian J. Braman
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Aesthetic in Moral Imagination
237
8
James P. Mesa
Is Medicine Today Still an Art?
245
14
John F. Morris
Art: A ``Political'' Good?
259
10
Jeanne M. Heffernan
The Arts and Authority
269
18
Joseph W. Koterski, S.J.
Social Justice as a Work of Art in Action
287
14
Henk E. S. Woldring
Contributors
301
5
Index
306