Plate Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics

Rethinking Religion through the Arts
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-1-135-87957-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Plate, S. Brent

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Agnostizismus, Atheismus, Säkularer Humanismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).