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• W4381949649 abstract "Reviewed by: Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas by Fran O'Rourke Louis Groarke O'ROURKE, Fran. Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2022. 334 pp. Cloth, $90.00; paper, $35.00 Anyone who has been to Dublin for its annual Bloomsday celebrations (on June 16) knows how seriously the Irish take their James Joyce. Eminent Irish philosopher Fran O'Rourke, in Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas, shines a more philosophical light on the proceedings. O'Rourke provides readers with a careful, scholarly, and informative account of Joyce's philosophical upbringing and education in Aristotelian Thomism by his largely Jesuit instructors at Belvedere College and University College Dublin. But this is not simply a book about Joyce's intellectual origins. It is not as if Joyce, the self-declared Catholic apostate, rebelled against all that was Aristotelian, Thomistic, or Roman Catholic. O'Rourke demonstrates, in painstaking detail (worthy of a Joycean scholar), that Joyce never quite gave up on the philosophical foundations that set him on the path to literary fame. Despite his very public break with the Church and his later life abroad, Joyce remained a Dub at heart, revisiting and reworking at times the intellectual legacy bequeathed to him by his Irish Catholic youth and upbringing. He refashioned the scholastic conceptual framework of these early years to produce, not an expert interpretation of Thomism, but an adept literary tool he could use to wield and express the background ideas and speculations that weave through in his far-flung corpus. O'Rourke writes, What makes Joyce unique in his Aristotelianism is that he reflectively made it his own, embracing it artistically—either as material content or as principle of organization. If, as is generally accepted, Stephen Dedalus is Joyce's literary alter ego in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and in Ulysses,it was (according to O'Rourke), Aristotelian metaphysics and psychology [that] provide Stephen … with the vocabulary and the categories he needs to understand himself and to interpret the world. Joyce positioned himself as an ally of Aristotle and a fierce opponent of the mystifying Platonic tendencies to which the Irish are allegedly prone. A determined empiricist, he focused on the unsystematic and jumbled concrete particulars that compose the world, borrowing categories and [End Page 762] conceptual baggage from Aristotle (often through Thomas) and adapting them to his own particular literary needs and goals. Joyce is a novelist and a poet, not a philosopher; he sometimes misunderstood and caricatured the basic tenets of Aristotelian Thomism. O'Rourke, who is thoroughly schooled in Aristotle and Aquinas, helpfully guides the reader, correcting Joyce the amateur philosopher throughout, but in an illuminating, learned way, which casts light on Joyce's literary inventiveness and the broad sweep of his mind. The book is filled with generous quotations from all of Joyce's works. Chapters include a close examination of Joyce's Thomist Aristotelian education in his university years, intermittent discussion of the secondary literature on Joyce, and philosophical accounts of various key concepts that Joyce and his fictional characters ponder: What is knowledge? Perception? Time? Space? Memory? Identity? The self? The soul? Beauty? One intriguing chapter is devoted to Joyce's Thomist Aesthetics; another is composed of meticulous commentary on a numbered list of thirty-one Aristotelian quotations found in Joyce's Early Commonplace Book (with original sources in French, English, and Greek). There is a generous supply of scholarly notes, a substantial bibliography, and an index of names. O'Rourke suggests, The impulse behind Finnegans Wake, as the inspiration also for Ulysses, was the Aristotelian insight that the soul is in a sense all things and the desire to grasp universal truth rationally or symbolically. He helpfully identifies the Aristotelian understanding of analogy as similarity in difference and unity in diversity as the overall principle of order that underlies Joyce's literary style. If, then, we think of the world as a collection of similar yet dissimilar things, we can perhaps make sense of Joyce's totalizing method as an uncanny X-ray penetration into the connectedness between things. Again and again, we encounter in Joyce's writing things that are linked by a sameness in difference..." @default.
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