偶像の想像力：美は宗教といかに関わり得るか The Iconic Imagination

Hedley, Douglas

Continuum Publishing Corporation（2016/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 320 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781441172174
• DDC分類 128.3

Full Description

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.

Contents

1. Beauty, Aesthetics and Theology
2. The Allure of beauty or the seductive power of fantasy
3. Imagination, transcendence and the regenerate imagination
4. Beauty and Unity
5. Beauty in relation to Truth
6. Beauty in relation to Goodness
7. Re-presenting the Divine Essence and the problem of Idolatry
8. Apocalypse: Images of the End
Bibliography
Index