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Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics - Rethinking Religion through the Arts (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,386
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Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics - Rethinking Religion through the Arts (Hardcover): S. Brent Plate

Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics - Rethinking Religion through the Arts (Hardcover)

S. Brent Plate

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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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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: December 2004
First published: 2005
Authors: S. Brent Plate
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-96991-8
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General
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LSN: 0-415-96991-3
Barcode: 9780415969918

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