Katja Frimberger

‘Seeing Like a Movie’: Cultivating the Poetic Gaze with Thomas Aquinas and the Artform of the Moving Image

Why does Aquinas go to the movies and what does all of this have to do with education? In order to shed light on this productive confusion, I shall explore Thomas Aquinas’ medieval notion of divine poiesis not merely as a theological or metaphysical intrusion of the pedagogical field, but as a model and metaphor that...