The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas

by Umberto Eco

Book Overview

The well-known Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco discloses for the first time to English-speaking readers the unsuspected richness, breadth, complexity, and originality of the aesthetic theories advanced by the influential medieval thinker Thomas Aquinas, heretofore known principally as a scholastic theologian. Inheriting his basic ideas and conceptions of art and beauty from the classical world, Aquinas transformed or modified these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674006763
• ISBN13: 9780674006768
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"