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The Cloud of Unknowing: a rhetorical 'how-to' manual for contemplative practice

未知的云：冥想练习的修辞“操作方法”手册

基本信息

批准号：
2272837
负责人：
金额：
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依托单位：
University of Cambridge
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2019 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2272837
关键词：
Cloud Unknowing rhetorical how manual

项目摘要

My research will investigate The Cloud of Unknowing and its related treatises as a highly sophisticated rhetoricalinstruction manual that functions as a practical guide to the practice of contemplation. My project will explore the Cloudauthor's engagement with his inherited rhetorical tradition, his connection with scholastic thought, and the influence hedraws from contemporary contemplative writers, to contextualize and deepen our understanding of his complex languageand style. I will compare his work with rhetoricians of late antiquity, such as Augustine, scholastic writers includingThomas Aquinas and Hugh of St Victor, and influential contemplatives such as Richard of St Victor and Thomas Gallus,to broaden my understanding of his approach to contemplative practice itself, and its articulation in language. My projectwill explore the theological principles that underpin his ideas, along with his attitude towards intellectualism. I will suggestthat his pragmatic, preachily approach to teaching aims to clarify rather than mystify, in spite of the linguistically andtheologically difficult material he discusses, and his that his texts are thus a 'how-to' manual for contemplative practice. Ihope to support this idea by exploring reader reception of his texts, and the extent to which this is in line with the readingI propose.

我的研究将调查云的未知和相关论文作为一个高度复杂的教学指导手册，作为一个实用的指导，以实践的沉思。我的项目将探索云作者的参与与他继承的修辞传统，他与学术思想的联系，以及他从当代修辞作家那里获得的影响，以加深我们对他复杂的语言和风格的理解。我将把他的作品与古代晚期的哲学家（如奥古斯丁）、学术作家（包括托马斯·阿奎那和圣维克托的休）以及有影响力的沉思者（如圣维克托的理查德和托马斯·加卢斯）进行比较，以扩大我对他的方法的理解，以解释实践本身及其在语言中的表达。我的项目探索支撑他的思想的神学原则，沿着他对理智主义的态度。我将指出，他的务实，说教的教学方法旨在澄清，而不是神秘化，尽管语言和神学上困难的材料，他讨论，他的文本，因此是一个'如何'手册的实践。我希望通过探讨读者对他的文本的接受来支持这一观点，以及这在多大程度上符合我提出的阅读。