Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781009317924 |
| ISBN10: | 100931792X |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 350 pages |
| Size: | 235x156x18 mm |
| Weight: | 620 g |
| Language: | English |
| 575 |
Category:
Phenomenology of the Icon
Mediating God through the Image
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 31 August 2023
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Short description:
Interweaving art history, patristics, theology, and aesthetics, this original phenomenological study develops a fresh new approach to the icon.
Long description:
How can something finite mediate an infinite God?&&&160;Weaving patristics, theology, art history, aesthetics, and religious practice with the hermeneutic phenomenology of Hans-George Gadamer and Jean-Luc Marion, Stephanie Rumpza proposes a new answer to this paradox by offering a fresh and original approach to the Byzantine icon.&&&160;She demonstrates the power and relevance of the phenomenological method to integrate hermeneutic aesthetics and divine transcendence, notably how the material and visual dimensions of the icon are illuminated by traditional practices of prayer.&&&160;Rumpza's study targets a problem that is a major fault line in the continental philosophy of religion - the integrity of finite beings I relation to a God that transcends them. For philosophers, her book demonstrates the relevance of a cherished religious practice of Eastern Christianity. For art historians, she proposes a novel philosophical paradigm for understanding the icon as it is approached in practice.
'To any reader seriously interested in the crucial issue of the icon, Stephanie Rumpza's work will appear as an invaluable achievement.... No doubt, this work will stand as a landmark in the understanding of the icon.' Jean-Luc Marion, Acad&&&233;mie Fran&&&231;aise
'To any reader seriously interested in the crucial issue of the icon, Stephanie Rumpza's work will appear as an invaluable achievement.... No doubt, this work will stand as a landmark in the understanding of the icon.' Jean-Luc Marion, Acad&&&233;mie Fran&&&231;aise
Table of Contents:
1. An introduction to the icon; 2. Resonance: Hans-Georg Gadamer's aesthetics; 3. The window: Jean-Luc Marion's 'Icon'; 4. Representation: the icon and artwork; 5. Presence: the icon and prayer; 6. Substitution: the icon and veneration; 7. Performance: the icon and the liturgy; 8. The love letter: iconic mediation; Select bibliography; Index.
