| Title of the article: |
Approaching the Aesthetic Consciousness of the Author of the Corpus Areopagiticum |
| Author(s): |
Bychkov V. V. |
| Section: |
Problems of culturology and philosophy |
| Year: |
2010 |
| Issue: |
№ 3 (XVII) |
| Pages: |
5-20 |
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| Abstract: |
The author who dealt with the aesthetics of the Corpus Areopagiticum in the 1970-1980's but has not exhausted this rich subject is undertaking a new attempt to approach this material. In this essay he demonstrates that the principal theological themes of the Areopagite, as well as the style itself of his theology, are steeped in special aesthetic energy, and in many ways are founded on aesthetic intuitions. In particular, his method of expressing the absolute transcendence of God by way of rhetorically elaborate antinomical and hypernomic constructions, as well as his grandiose concept of onto-gnoseological cosmo-anthropic hierarchy, are based on aesthetic principles (of poetic imagery, symbolism, hymnology, beauty, clarity, order, likeness, mimesis, catharsis, perfection, harmony, etc.). |
| Keywords: |
CORPUS AREOPAGITICUM, THEOLOGICAL AESTHETICS, APOPHATICISM, ANTINOMIES, BYZANTINE AESTHETICS |
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