Completely reset text;
archival quality paper and
binding; new introduction;
CIP data; new index.
5x8, approx. 210 pages
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-1-934182-03-1
$55.00
By Etienne Gilson
With a new introduction by Janine Langan
The muses Etienne Gilson (1884-1978) studies here are not the
nine gathered around Apollo but women who have inspired
great praticioners of the arts—and even the positivist
philosopher Comte.
In this elegant book, Gilson presents the stories, and unpacks
the meaning, of: Petrarch and Laura; Baudelaire and Mme.
Sabatier; Wagner and Mathilde; Auguste Comte and Clotilde;
Maeterlinck and Georgette; and Goethe and Lili. And in doing so,
Gilson, one of the twentieth century’s notable connoisseurs of
fine art, draws some startling conclusions about the nature of
artistic, and philosophical, inspiration, human existence, and the
religious impulses in all great artists (and philosophers)—even in
those not formally religious. First published in English in 1953,
this brilliant book is now made available again for the enjoyment
and education of all lovers of great art and the beauty that
inspires it.
Maritain, for the twentieth-century revival of Thomistic
philosophy, was one of the most important philosophers and
historians of medieval thought of the last century and a great
influence on the current one. A student at the Sorbonne, Gilson
taught there from 1921 to 1932 and at the College de France
from 1932 until 1951. In 1929, he founded the Pontifical Institute
of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto. Throughout his
long career, Gilson authored dozens of books and hundreds of
articles and reviews and gave numerous lectures—including the
Gifford Lectures in 1931-1932 (later published as The Spirit of
Medieval Philosophy).
Christianity and Culture, St. Michael’s College, University of
Toronto, where she founded and developed the Christianity and
Culture Program. She has written articles in Communio, Logos,
and many other journals. She lectures in numerous venues on
faith and culture.