Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism

An Inquiry into the analogy of the arts, philosophy and religion in the Middle Ages , #M44

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156 pages

English language

Published 1957 by Meridian Books.

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5 stars (1 review)

Professor Erwin Panofsky’s study, Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism, captured and holds an eminent place in a series that is not without distinction, the Wimmer Lectures. Established in memory of the founder of the Benedictine Order in America, Boniface Wimmer, the series has brought to St. Vincent College such fine scholars as Jacques Maritain (“Man’s Approach to God”), William F. Albright (“Toward a Theistic Humanism”), Helen C. White (“Prayer and Poetry”), and Elias A. Lowe (“The Finest Book in the World”).

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Demonstration of the Warburgian Method

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The paradigmatic work that demonstrates the methods of Warburg (or Hamburg) School of Art History, and more broadly, iconology and iconography. In conjunction with Vienna School's method and the Neo-Kantian theoretical background of the German countries from WWI to WWII, human culture is for the first time genuinely treated as a unified system, fulfilling the long march of German symbolic theology and German philosophy from Origen and Augustine of Hippo's theological anthropology, to Joachim of Fiore to Meister Eckhart and Jakob Boehme, to Giambattista Vico, to Herder, to Kant's philosophical anthropology, and to Goethe, to Hegel, and finally to Dilthey and Rickert, in its yearning for true inwardness and the self-knowledge of the depth of human - Imago Dei - spirit.

Subjects

  • Architecture
  • History of Ideas
  • Art History

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