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Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics - Rethinking Religion through the Arts (Hardcover)
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Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics - Rethinking Religion through the Arts (Hardcover)
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"Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics" is an innovative
attempt to reconceive the key concepts of religious studies through
a reading with, and against, Walter Benjamin. Brent Plate deftly
sifts through Benjamin's voluminous writings showing how his
concepts of art, allegory, and experience undo traditional
religious concepts such as myth, symbol, memory, narrative,
creation, and redemption. Recasting religion as religious practice,
as process and movement, Plate locates a Benjaminian materialist
aesthetics, what the author calls an "allegorical aesthetics," in
order to uncover sources and establish a new locus for the study of
religion.
Placing the concept of an allegorical aesthetics into practice,
Plate offers examinations of aesthetic productions such as Daniel
Libeskind's architecture and Marcel Duchamp's ready-mades alongside
religious developments such as the Hindu Bhakti movement and Jewish
Kabbalistic thought.
"Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics" will be necessary
reading for those interested in religion and the arts, aesthetics,
and material culture.
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