S. Brent Plate

Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics (eBook, PDF)

Rethinking Religion through the Arts

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135879570
• Artikelnr.: 38252833

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 World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making (2003) and Religion, Art, and Visual Culture: A Cross-Cultural Reader (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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