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"Bonaventure's Aesthetics: The Delight of the Soul in Its Ascent into God provides an extensive analysis of Bonaventure's concept of beauty, the first to appear since Balthasar's Herrlichkeit, and the role it plays in the Itinerarium mentis in Deum"--.

• Cover
• Bonaventure’s Aesthetics
• Bonaventure’s Aesthetics: The Delight of the Soul inIts Ascent into God
• Copyright
• Contents
• A Note on the Cover Illustration
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
  • The Question of Approach
  • Other Questions
  • Notes
• Chapter 1
• Bonaventure’s Debt to l’Esthétique Musicale
  • Bonaventure’s Sources: Genesis, Timaeus, and the Stoic Inheritance
  • Bonaventure’s Definitions of Physical Beauty
  • Bonaventure’s Reformulation of the Arguments from Design
  • Bonaventure’s Cosmology and His Reformulation of the Genesis Narrative
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Chapter 2
• Bonaventure’s Debt to l’Esthétique de la Lumière
  • The Platonic Thesis
  • Plotinus’ Reformulation of the Platonic Thesis
  • The Transmission of the Platonic Thesis
  • Bonaventure’s Reformulation of the Platonic Thesis
  • The Arguments for l’Esthétique de la Lumière
  • The Transcendental Status of Beauty
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Chapter 3
• Bonaventure’s Account of the Aesthetic Experience
  • Bonaventure’s Philosophical Anthropology
  • Bonaventure’s Philosophical Psychology and the Epistemological Process
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Chapter 4
• The Aesthetic Dimensions of the Itinerarium Mentis in Deum
  • The Reductio of the Itinerarium Mentis in Deum
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author