Name: The Iconic Imagination
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Author: Hedley, Douglas
ISBN: 9781441172174

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Author

Douglas Hedley

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.9 cm

Weight

0.60 kg.

ISBN13

9781441172174

Synopsis "The Iconic Imagination"

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.

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