Mass Society and Its Culture, and Three Essays concerning Etienne Gilson on Bergson, Christian Philosophy, and Art (eBook)

Étienne Gilson, Henri Gouhier (Autoren)

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2023
196 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-6667-1794-5 (ISBN)

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A medievalist and defender of the notion of Christian philosophy, Etienne Gilson had a lifelong interest in the philosophy of art. He questioned whether what is reproduced as art in contemporary society is art at all. This is not a simple issue. A cheap version of a novel is still a novel. A picture of a statue is not a statue, nor indeed is a photograph of a painting a painting. Recorded music has particular complications.
The organizer of an industrial assembly line is neither an artist nor an artisan. Yet, thanks to such mass production, a much broader population has knowledge of artworks than would otherwise be possible.
Religions must minister to mass societies and provide appropriate liturgies. But in the process, there is a danger of misrepresenting complex religious teachings.
At the end of his own life, Henri Gouhier, Gilson's first doctoral student, prepared three essays on Gilson. The first, on Bergson, gives a sense of Gilson's formation in early twentieth-century French philosophy. The second reconstructs the development of the notion of Christian philosophy and the heated controversy it provoked. Finally, Gouhier presents Gilson's general philosophy of art and gives a helpful framework to Gilson's comments on art in a mass society.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.1.2023
• Übersetzer: James G. Colbert
• Verlagsort: Eugene
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • Architecture • ART • Christianity • Christianity and Culture • Étienne Gilson • Henri Gouhier • History • History of Art • Industry • James G. Colbert • Literature • Literature and the Arts • Mass Society and Its Culture, and Three Essays concerning Etienne Gilson on Bergson, Christian Philosophy, and Art • Medieval • Philosophy • Philosophy: aesthetics • philosophy of art • scultpture • The Arts: General Issues
• ISBN-10: 1-6667-1794-0 / 1666717940
• ISBN-13: 978-1-6667-1794-5 / 9781666717945