S Brent Plate

Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics

Rethinking Religion through the Arts

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 153mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780415969918
• ISBN-10: 0415969913
• Artikelnr.: 22298865

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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
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