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Lonergan's Quest : A Study of Desire in the Authoring of Insight.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Lonergan StudiesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (575 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442676794
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lonergan's QuestDDC classification:
  • 121
LOC classification:
  • B995.L654 M38 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Desire and the Shaping of an Author -- I: TRADITIONS AND THE EDUCATION OF DESIRE: THE APPRENTICESHIP OF A PROBLEM SOLVER, 1904-1940 -- 2 Quebec Origins: A Classics Student, an Illness, and a Surprising Vocation -- 3 Heythrop: Awakening to the Problem of Knowledge -- 4 Puzzled in Montreal by the Depression and Plato's Ideas -- 5 Struggling with History and Reality in Rome before the War -- 6 Postgraduate Studies in Theology: A New Road Taken -- II: FINDING AND FOLLOWING THE GOLDEN CORD OF THE HEART'S DESIRE -- 7 Economics or Cognitional Theory: Towards Desire's Decisions -- 8 Insights into Phantasms as the Origins of Words -- 9 Thought and Reality: Measuring the Kantian Bridge -- 10 Aquinas on Cognition and Its Transcendence -- 11 Toronto, the Operations of the Mind, and a Creative Illness -- 12 Human Insights as Reflections of the Divine Nature -- III: COMPOSING INSIGHT: THE ARTISTRY OF DESIRE -- The Proto-Insight, 1949-1951 -- 13 1949: The Vision of the First Beginning -- 14 Experimenting with the Insights of Mathematicians and Scientists -- 15 The Breakthrough to Cognitional Structure -- 16 The Mind's Desire as the Key to the Relation of Thought and Reality -- 17 Exploring the Real Known World: A Metaphysical Beginning -- The Autograph, 1951-1953 -- 18 Finally Beginning in the Middle: Common Sense, Consciousness, and Self-Affirmation -- 19 Insights into Emergent Probability -- 20 Insights into the Dialectical Development of Common Sense -- 21 Insights into the Irreducibility of Things -- 22 Insights into Philosophical Method, Polymorphism, and Isomorphism -- 23 Process Metaphysics: Finality, Development, the Human Image -- 24 On Mythic and Philosophical Consciousness: Truth and Its Expression and Interpretation -- 25 The Cognitional and the Ethical -- 26 Questions and Insights in Religion.
27 Introduction, Epilogue, Prefaces, Publication -- 28 Epilogue: Recollecting the Human Mystery -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Benard Lonergan Index -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: In Lonergan's Quest, William A. Mathews details the genesis, researching, composition, and question structure of Insight.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Desire and the Shaping of an Author -- I: TRADITIONS AND THE EDUCATION OF DESIRE: THE APPRENTICESHIP OF A PROBLEM SOLVER, 1904-1940 -- 2 Quebec Origins: A Classics Student, an Illness, and a Surprising Vocation -- 3 Heythrop: Awakening to the Problem of Knowledge -- 4 Puzzled in Montreal by the Depression and Plato's Ideas -- 5 Struggling with History and Reality in Rome before the War -- 6 Postgraduate Studies in Theology: A New Road Taken -- II: FINDING AND FOLLOWING THE GOLDEN CORD OF THE HEART'S DESIRE -- 7 Economics or Cognitional Theory: Towards Desire's Decisions -- 8 Insights into Phantasms as the Origins of Words -- 9 Thought and Reality: Measuring the Kantian Bridge -- 10 Aquinas on Cognition and Its Transcendence -- 11 Toronto, the Operations of the Mind, and a Creative Illness -- 12 Human Insights as Reflections of the Divine Nature -- III: COMPOSING INSIGHT: THE ARTISTRY OF DESIRE -- The Proto-Insight, 1949-1951 -- 13 1949: The Vision of the First Beginning -- 14 Experimenting with the Insights of Mathematicians and Scientists -- 15 The Breakthrough to Cognitional Structure -- 16 The Mind's Desire as the Key to the Relation of Thought and Reality -- 17 Exploring the Real Known World: A Metaphysical Beginning -- The Autograph, 1951-1953 -- 18 Finally Beginning in the Middle: Common Sense, Consciousness, and Self-Affirmation -- 19 Insights into Emergent Probability -- 20 Insights into the Dialectical Development of Common Sense -- 21 Insights into the Irreducibility of Things -- 22 Insights into Philosophical Method, Polymorphism, and Isomorphism -- 23 Process Metaphysics: Finality, Development, the Human Image -- 24 On Mythic and Philosophical Consciousness: Truth and Its Expression and Interpretation -- 25 The Cognitional and the Ethical -- 26 Questions and Insights in Religion.

27 Introduction, Epilogue, Prefaces, Publication -- 28 Epilogue: Recollecting the Human Mystery -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Benard Lonergan Index -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

In Lonergan's Quest, William A. Mathews details the genesis, researching, composition, and question structure of Insight.

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