Incomprehensible Certainty

Acknowledgments

List of Images & Permissions

Abbreviations


Introduction: Writing the Image: Reading - Reflection - Argument


PART I - Image-Theory as Metaphysics and Theology: the Emergence of a Tradition

1. A Brief Metaphysics of the Image: Plato - Plotinus

2. Theology and Phenomenology of the Byzantine Icon

3. The Eschatological Image: Augustine - Bonaventure - Julian of Norwich

4. The Speculative Image: Platonism and Mysticism in Nicholas of Cusa


PART II - The Image in the Era of Naturalism and the Persistence of Metaphysics

5. The Symbolic Image: Visualizing the Metamorphosis of Being in Goethe

6. The Forensic Image: Paradoxes of Realism in Lyell, Darwin, and Ruskin

7. The Sacramental Image: G. M. Hopkins

8. The Epiphanic Image: Husserl - Cezanne - Rilke


Epilogue & Conclusions

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