Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Writing the Image
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 Mystical Image: Platonism and Communal Vision 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-Cézanne-Rilke
Works Cited
Index.