Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics: Rethinking Religion Through the Arts

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Psychology Press, 2005 - 171 páginas
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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Aesthetics I From the Body to the Mind and Back
15
Allegorical Aesthetics
39
Working Art The Aesthetics of Technological Reproduction
83
Aesthetics II Building the Communal Sense
123

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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).

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