Re-Enchantment
Price: $100.00
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-96051-9
- Binding: Hardback (also available in Paperback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 3rd September 2008 (Available for Pre-order)
- Pages: 336
About the Book
The near-absence of religion from contemporary discourse on art is one of the most fundamental issues in postmodernism. Artists critical of religion can find voices in the art world, but religion itself, including spirituality, is taken to be excluded by the very project of modernism. The sublime, "re-enchantment" (as in Weber), and the aura (as in Benjamin) have been used to smuggle religious concepts back into academic writing, but there is still no direct communication between "religionists" and scholars. Transcendence, volume 7 in The Art Seminar series, will be the first book to bridge that gap.
The volume will include an introduction and two final, synoptic essays, as well as contributions from some of the most prominent thinkers on religion and art including Thierry De Duve, Geroges Didi-Huberman, Gerhard Wolff, Jack Caputo, and Jean-Luc Marion.
About the Author(s)
James Elkins is E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His many books include What Painting Is, Pictures and Tears, Stories of Art, Visual Studies, Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles, On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art, and Master Narratives and Their Discontents, all published by Routledge.
David Morgan is Professor of Religion at Duke University. Author of Visual Piety (1998), Protestants and Pictures (1999), The Sacred Gaze (2005), and The Lure of Images (Routledge, 2007), Morgan is also co-founder and co-editor of Material Religion, and has recently edited and contributed to a volume entitled Key Words in Religion, Media, and Culture (Routledge, 2008).