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Hand to Hand: Listening to the Work of Art (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

By Jean-Louis Chretien

Book information

Publisher
Fordham University Press
Year
2003
ISBN
9780823222902, 082322290X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
40 MB (41683194 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
184\216
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-15 00:48:41

Description

A leading philosopher and theologian, Jean-Louis Chrétien uses poetry and painting to explore a theme that runs through all of his work: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response. For Chrétien, we live by responding to the call of experience with words, gestures, expressions, and silence. In luminous meditations on Rembrandt, Delacroix, Manet, Verlaine, Keats, and other artists, Chrétien shows how “talking hands of painters” and the “secretly lucid” voices of poets confront the finitude of the human body. Hand to Hand is a deeply cultured renewal of art in all its provocative, transforming, spiritual presence.

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