The Iconic Imagination
Douglas Hedley, "The Iconic Imagination"
English | ISBN: 1441172173 | 2016 | 320 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1441172173 | 2016 | 320 pages | PDF | 4 MB
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,
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