Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics

Rethinking Religion through the Arts

AvS. Brent Plate

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics is an innovative and creative attempt to unsettle and reconceive the key concepts of religious studies through a reading with, and against, Walter Benjamin. Constructing what he calls an "allegorical aesthetics," Plate sifts through Benjamin's writings showing how his concepts of art, allegory, and experience undo traditionally stabilizing religious concepts such as myth, symbol, memory, narrative, creation, and redemption.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-12-12
Mått:152 x 229 x 10 mm
Vikt:350 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:188
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780415969925

Utforska kategorier

Religion och tro inom Filosofi och religion
Konstteori inom Kultur
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

S. Brent Plate is Assistant Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University has published widely on religion and visual culture, film, and aesthetics. His edited collections include the forthcoming Religion and WorldCinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making (2003) and Religion, Art, and Visual Culture: A Cross-CulturalReader (2002).

Innehållsförteckning

Prescript: The Religious Uses of Benjamin i Acknowledgements viii Abbreviations used ix List of Illustrationsx Introduction: Creative Aesthetics Creating Religion 1 Chapter One: Aesthetics (I): From the Body to the Mind and Back 22 Chapter Two: Allegorical Aesthetics 59 Chapter Three: Working Art: The Aesthetics of Technological Reproduction 138 Chapter Four: Aesthetics (II): Building the Communal Sense 209 Bibliography 244