This interdisciplinary study offers an interpretation of the major logical, philosophical/theological and poetic writings of Boethius, Abelard and Alan of Lille. The author examines their theories of language and the ways in which they explore how words illuminate things, how the mind comprehends God and how the individual reaches beatitude.

Autorentext
EILEEN C. SWEENEY is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction: Words in the Absence of Things Boethius: Translation, Transfer, and Transport Abelard: A Twelfth Century Hermeneutics of Suspicion Alan of Lille: Language and its Peregrinations To and From Divine Unity Bibliography