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The Iconic Imagination (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,486
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The Iconic Imagination (Paperback): Douglas Hedley

The Iconic Imagination (Paperback)

Douglas Hedley

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Is it merely an accident of English etymology that 'imagination' is cognate with 'image'? Despite the iconoclasm shared to a greater or lesser extent by all Abrahamic faiths, theism tends to assert a link between beauty, goodness and truth, all of which are viewed as Divine attributes. Douglas Hedley argues that religious ideas can be presented in a sensory form, especially in aesthetic works. Drawing explicitly on a Platonic metaphysics of the image as a bearer of transcendence, The Iconic Imagination shows the singular capacity and power of images to represent the transcendent in the traditions of Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Islam. In opposition to cold abstraction and narrow asceticism, Hedley shows that the image furnishes a vision of the eternal through the visible and temporal.

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Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2016
Authors: Douglas Hedley
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-1-4411-9463-3
Languages: English
Subtitles: English
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Philosophy of religion > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Philosophy of religion > General
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LSN: 1-4411-9463-0
Barcode: 9781441194633

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