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Hand to Hand: Listening to the Work of Art
Jean-Louis Chretien
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Description for Hand to Hand: Listening to the Work of Art
Paperback. Shows how talking hands of painters and the secretly lucid voices of poets confront the finitude of the human body. In this title, the author 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. Translator(s): Lewis, Stephen E. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3226 x 5182 x 13. Weight in Grams: 264.
A leading philosopher and theologian, Jean-Louis Chretien 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 Chretien, 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, Chretien 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 ... Read more
A leading philosopher and theologian, Jean-Louis Chretien 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 Chretien, 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, Chretien 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Series
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Condition
New
Weight
263g
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823222902
SKU
V9780823222902
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About Jean-Louis Chretien
Jean-Louis Chretien teaches philosophy at the University of Paris IV. His books, as translated into English, include The Unforgettable and the Unhoped For (Fordham University Press, 2002), Hand to Hand (Fordham University Press, 2003), and The Call and the Response (Fordham University Press, 2004). He is one of the coeditors of Phenomenology and the Theological Turn : The ... Read more
Reviews for Hand to Hand: Listening to the Work of Art
[Chretien] has written a luminous meditation on various works of art-among them paintings by Rembrandt, Delacroix and Manet-in which he advocates for a 'solitary act of listening' on the part of the viewer.
-Karl Pohrt
Shaman Drum Bookshop
-Karl Pohrt
Shaman Drum Bookshop