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Re-Enchantment James Elkins

Re-Enchantment By James Elkins

Re-Enchantment by James Elkins


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This volume includes an introduction and two final, synoptic essays, as well as contributions from some of the most prominent thinkers on religion and art including Thierry De Duve, Georges Didi-Huberman, Gerhard Wolff, Jack Caputo and Jean-Luc Marion.

Re-Enchantment Summary

Re-Enchantment by James Elkins

The near-absence of religion from contemporary discourse on art is one of the most fundamental issues in postmodernism. Artists critical of religion can find voices in the art world, but religion itself, including spirituality, is taken to be excluded by the very project of modernism. The sublime, re-enchantment (as in Weber), and the aura (as in Benjamin) have been used to smuggle religious concepts back into academic writing, but there is still no direct communication between religionists and scholars. Re-Enchantment, volume 7 in The Art Seminar Series, will be the first book to bridge that gap.

The volume will include an introduction and two final, synoptic essays, as well as contributions from some of the most prominent thinkers on religion and art including Boris Groys, James Elkins, Thierry de Duve, David Morgan, Norman Girardot, Sally Promey, Brent Plate, and Christopher Pinney.

About James Elkins

James Elkins is E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Head of History of Art at the University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of Pictures and Tears, How to Use Your Eyes, What Painting Is, The Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art, and Master Narratives and their Discontents, all published by Routledge; and Six Stories from the End of Representation, published by Stanford University Press. David Morgan is Professor of Religion at Duke University, and author of several books, including Visual Piety, The Sacred Gaze, and The Lure of Images (Routledge). He is co-founder and co-editor of the journal Material Religion.

Table of Contents

Series Preface Section 1: Introduction Section Two: Starting Points Section Three: The Art Seminar, Participants: Thierry De Duve, Georges Didi-Huberman, Gerhard Wolff, Jack Caputo, and Jean-Luc Marion. Section Four: Assessments Section Five: Afterwords Notes on Contributors Index

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NLS9780415960526
9780415960526
0415960525
Re-Enchantment by James Elkins
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2008-10-06
326
N/A
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