Phenomenology of the Icon - Mediating God Through the Image

"How can a finite thing mediate an infinite God? Critically weaving together patristics, theology, art history, aesthetics, and religious practice with the hermeneutic phenomenology of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jean-Luc Marion, this book proposes a new answer to this paradox based on a fresh and original approach to the Byzantine icon"--

List 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.

About the author

Stephanie Rumpza is a researcher in Philosophy at Sorbonne Université (Paris IV). Her research focuses on the mediation of image, word, and expression and the relation between phenomenological and theological thinking.

Summary

How can a finite thing mediate an infinite God? Critically weaving together patristics, theology, art history, aesthetics, and religious practice with the hermeneutic phenomenology of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jean-Luc Marion, this book proposes a new answer to this paradox based on a fresh and original approach to the Byzantine icon.

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie Rumpza, Stephanie (Sorbonne Universite Rumpza, Stephanie (University of Paris Rumpza
• Assisted by: Marion Jean-Luc (Foreword)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781009317924
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0931792-4
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, RELIGION / Philosophy, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, Philosophy of religion, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval style, Medieval Western philosophy, ART / History / European / Medieval