The Call and the Response / Edition 1

by Jean-Louis Chretien, Anne A. Davenport

Overview

In this provocative book, the philosopher, theologian, and poet Jean-Louis Chretien revisits one of his enduring themes: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response. Using art as a context, Chretien argues that imaginative works are acts of response to what the creator sees or hears, and to the ways in which viewers, readers, and other participants themselves respond to the experience of art: by voice, sight, hearing, touch, silence. Ranging broadly across philosophy, literature, and theology, from the Platonic idea of beauty to a phenomenology of touch and sense, Chretien identifies and explores the spiritual and philosophical dimensions of the aesthetic experience, rooting it in the irreducibly human attempt to make sense of ourselves and all the others in our world. The Call and the Response is another illuminating and luminous work of intellect and imagination by one of the leading thinkers of our time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823222988
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	03/01/2004
Series:	Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Edition description:	2
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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 French Debate (Fordham University Press, 2000), as well as the author of the follow-up volume Phenomenology “Wide Open”: After the French Debate (Fordham University Press, 2005).

Anne A. Davenport teaches humanities at Boston College.

Table of Contents

	Translator's Preface	vii
	Introduction	1
1.	Call and Response	5
2.	The Visible Voice	33
3.	The Other Voice	44
4.	Body and Touch	83
	Publications by Jean-Louis Chretien	133
	Index	135

Editorial Reviews

...Chretien is to be credited in his work overall and in The Call and the Response specifically for greatly promoting the interdisciplinary outreach for phenomenology in an age where it has been overshadowed by the looming prescence of postmodern and post-structural thought.

Journal of Phenomenological

Ably translated by Davenport, Chretien's monograph is a new entry in the controversy over "the religious turn" in recent French phenomenology.

Theological Studies

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