The work of the Japanese sculptor Toshimasa Kikuchi (born in 1979) is somehow bewilderingly obvious. Trained in the restoration of Buddhist statues, mastering to perfection the techniques of classical Japanese statuary, he carves pure forms in wood - geometric, hydrodynamic or figurative. His scientific repertory is of all time (mathematics, engineering, natural history), but his preferred materials and techniques are firmly grounded in tradition (Japanese hinoki cypress, urushi lacquer, kinpaku gold leaf). The installation he presents for his Carte Blanche at the musee Guimet in Paris, brings together a series of slender sculptures in lacquered wood of mathematical objects, in the tradition of the celebrated photographs that Man Ray took of them. These abstract forms, hanging from the ceiling like mobiles or laid on the floor like devotional objects, take shape through a virtuosity and craftsmanship seldom found in contemporary art. The book is lavishly illustrated by the Japanese photographer Tadayuki Minamoto, who was able to capture the magnificence of the mathematical abstraction of the works of Kikuchi; by photographs and paintings by Man Ray; and with fascinating mathematical objects from the Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, photographed by the French photographer Bertrand Michau. It is essential reading for lovers of surrealism and of the early years of twentieth-century abstraction as well as for all who are intrigued by the close relationship between art and mathematics.

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Reflections on the Religious, the Ethical, and the Political presents fourteen essays devoted to the interconnected topics of religion, ethics, and politics, along with an introductory interview with the author regarding his philosophical development over the years. This volume serves two interconnected purposes: as an introduction or reintroduction to Professor Schrag's intellectual contributions to a critical consideration of these three topics, and as a critical companion and supplement to Schrag's published work on these topics, starting with Existence and Freedom (1961), working all the way through to Doing Philosophy with Others (2010). The topics of religion, ethics, and politics have served as pivot points throughout Schrag's career in the academy, which spans half a century. Part One, Religion and the Post-Secular Turn in Continental Philosophy, includes contributions to the traditions of philosophical discussion regarding matters of ontology, religious epistemology, existentialism, transcendence, and the problem of evil, all informed by the myriad resources of twentieth-century philosophy.Part Two, Transvaluation of the Ethical and the Political, considers topics of moral experience, interpersonal alterity, cross-cultural dialogue, and postnational identity, all against the backdrop of a radicalized understanding of the gift. Throughout, this volume gives voice to a distinctive Schragean philosophy of religion, morality, and political praxis. This approach is heavily rooted in a critical dialogue with all relevant modes of philosophical and theological discourse, including phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, critical social theory, postmodernism, deconstruction, and postsecular philosophy of religion. In conversation with the post/modern and deconstructive approaches that held sway during the second half of the twentieth century, Schrag charts a transversal path that reenergizes the philosophy of the human subject in its religious, ethical, and political dimensions.