A critical assessment of the influence of neoplatonism in J.R.R. Tolkien's philosophy of life as 'being and gift'
This thesis explores the theology and philosophy, metaphysics and mystical approach to life as 'being and gift' in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien. As a popular writer of fantasy, it is my hypothesis that he developed in that fantasy a radical metaphysics of giftedness in created being, in...
Main Author: | Halsall, Michael |
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University of Nottingham
2016
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.716490 |
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