Hart, Kevin / Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation
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Kevin Hart is the Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Theology at the University of Virginia.
An original and profound exploration of contemplation from philosopher, theologian, and poet Kevin Hart.
In Lands of Likeness, Kevin Hart develops a new hermeneutics of contemplation through a meditation on Christian thought and secular philosophy. Drawing on Kant, Schopenhauer, Coleridge, and Husserl, Hart first charts the emergence of contemplation in and beyond the Romantic era. Next, Hart shows this hermeneutic at work in poetry by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and others. Delivered in its original form as the prestigious Gifford Lectures, Lands of Likeness is a revelatory meditation on contemplation for the modern world.
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University of Chicago Press
October 2023
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Hart, Kevin / Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation