Art, Desire, and God

Phenomenological Perspectives

Kevin G. Grove, Christopher C. Rios, Taylor J. Nutter, Kevin G. Grove, Christopher C. Rios, Taylor J. Nutter

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781350327153
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350327177
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Aesthetics in Philosophy

Bringing together thinkers from philosophy of religion, religious studies, music, art, and film, while drawing on a wealth of phenomenological resources and methods, a team of renowned scholars provide new vantages on the question of how art is an expression of the human desire for God.

In three interrelated parts, chapters employ phenomenological tools to propose new ways for speaking of the desire for God. Scholars first draw upon music, sculpture, film, and painting to develop ways of expressing diverse philosophical and religious aspects characteristic of aesthetic experience. The discussion then opens up to examine the mystical and wounded aspects of embodied interface with God. The final part investigates embodied aesthetic praxis in philosophy of religion and religious studies.

With several contributions engaging with the embodied, aesthetic experience of underrepresented voices, Art, Desire, and God offers constructive phenomenological bridges across divides of disciplines, aesthetic experiences, and embodied actions.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Colour Plates
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part 1 Embodied Experience in Art and Film
• 1 Call and Response: Negation and the Configuration of Desire
• 2 Making Sense in the Midst of Non-Sense: Félix Ravaisson and George Rickey as a Way Forward for Emmanuel Falque
• 3 Perspective in Nicholas of Cusa and the Rise of the Transcendental Subject
• 4 Desirous Seeing: Sol LeWitt, Vision, and Paradox
• 5 Memory and Desire for God in Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder
• 6 Life in the Heart of Cinema: Michel Henry’s New Phenomenology and Cinematic Form
• Part 2 Carnal Encounter
• 7 Scandal in the Cornaro Chapel: Desire for God and The Ecstasy of St. Teresa
• 8 Art and Desire in the Song of Songs
• 9 The Touch of God: Woundedness and Desire in James Baldwin and Jean-Louis Chrétien
• Part 3 Incarnate Performance
• 10 Of God and Trout Fishing: A Phenomenology of Reeligious Life
• 11 The Prescription of Liturgy for the Problem of Blindness in the Thought of Jean-Luc Marion
• 12 Beauty, Sacrament, and the Road to Emmaus
• 13 The Saturated Flesh of Christ: Christology, Aesthetics, and Subjectivity in Jean-Luc Marion and M. Shawn Copeland
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Copyright