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This book brings to bear on its topic the learning and insights both of philosophy and of literary criticism. It is a sensitive and thoughtful exploration of Milton's poetry and philosophical theology. Both those who are interested in understanding the power of Milton's poetry and those who share with Milton an interest in philosophical theology will find this book helpful. * Eleonore Stump, Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy, Saint Louis University * A refreshing departure from the usual concerns of Miltonic studies, this book offers a searching meditation on the ethics of Paradise Lost. Zamir finds in Milton's epic an implicit critique of the limitations of philosophy, indeed an exemplary signposting of those moments at which literary modes of understanding transcend the merely philosophical. * Christopher Tilmouth, University of Cambridge *

This book brings to bear on its topic the learning and insights both of philosophy and of literary criticism. It is a sensitive and thoughtful exploration of Milton's poetry and philosophical theology. Both those who are interested in understanding the power of Milton's poetry and those who share with Milton an interest in philosophical theology will find this book helpful. * Eleonore Stump, Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy, Saint Louis University * A refreshing departure from the usual concerns of Miltonic studies, this book offers a searching meditation on the ethics of Paradise Lost. Zamir finds in Milton's epic an implicit critique of the limitations of philosophy, indeed an exemplary signposting of those moments at which literary modes of understanding transcend the merely philosophical. * Christopher Tilmouth, University of Cambridge * In Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama, Tzachi Zamir demonstrated what can be done when an acute philosopher and subtle literary critic turns his attention to a great writer. Now he has done the same with Milton in Ascent: Philosophy and 'Paradise Lost'. In a book essential for anyone interested in the intersections of literature, philosophy, and religion, Zamir offers a generous and empathetic reading of claims for religious poetry that his own philosophical commitments in part preclude. In deeply illuminating chapters on gratitude in Paradise Lost, Zamir demonstrates that Milton's poem contains a gift theory more nuanced even than Jacques Derrida's or Jean-Luc Marion's. * Stephen M. Fallon, John J Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities, University of Notre Dame *

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Tzachi Zamir is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Zamir is the author of Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama (Princeton, 2006), Ethics and the Beast (Princeton, 2007), and Acts: Theater, Philosophy and the Performing Self (The University of Michigan Press, 2014). He is the editor of a forthcoming collection of articles on Hamlet and philosophy for Oxford University Press.

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