Étienne Gilson, Henri Gouhier

Mass Society and Its Culture, and Three Essays concerning Etienne Gilson on Bergson, Christian Philosophy, and Art (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Colbert, James G.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A medievalist and defender of the notion of Christian philosophy, Etienne Gilson had a lifelong interest in the philosophy of art. He questioned whether what is reproduced as art in contemporary society is art at all. This is not a simple issue. A cheap version of a novel is still a novel. A picture of a statue is not a statue, nor indeed is a photograph of a painting a painting. Recorded music has particular complications. The organizer of an industrial assembly line is neither an artist nor an artisan. Yet, thanks to such mass production, a much broader population has knowledge of artworks than would otherwise be possible. Religions must minister to mass societies and provide appropriate liturgies. But in the process, there is a danger of misrepresenting complex religious teachings. At the end of his own life, Henri Gouhier, Gilson's first doctoral student, prepared three essays on Gilson. The first, on Bergson, gives a sense of Gilson's formation in early twentieth-century French philosophy. The second reconstructs the development of the notion of Christian philosophy and the heated controversy it provoked. Finally, Gouhier presents Gilson's general philosophy of art and gives a helpful framework to Gilson's comments on art in a mass society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666717945
• Artikelnr.: 67419700

Autorenporträt

Etienne Gilson (1884-1978) is also the author of 'Christian Philosophy,' 'Linguistics and Philosophy,' 'The Christian Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, and 'The Unity of Philosophical Experience.'