Ebook: Boethius and Dialogue: Literary Method in the "Consolation of Philosophy"
Author: Seth Lerer
- Tags: Medieval, Movements & Periods, History & Criticism, Literature & Fiction, Philosophy, Aesthetics, Analytic Philosophy, Consciousness & Thought, Criticism, Eastern, Epistemology, Ethics & Morality, Free Will & Determinism, Good & Evil, Greek & Roman, History & Surveys, Logic & Language, Medieval Thought, Metaphysics, Methodology, Modern, Modern Renaissance, Movements, Political, Reference, Religious, Social Philosophy, Politics & Social Sciences
- Series: Princeton Legacy Library
- Year: 1985
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Edition: First ed
- Language: English
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This book treats Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy as a work of imaginative literature, and applies modern techniques of criticism to his writings. The author's central purpose is to demonstrate the methodological and thematic coherence of The Consolation of Philosophy.
Originally published in 1985.
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