The Call and the Response
In the aptly titled The Call and the Response, renowned philosopher and theologian Jean-Louis Chrtien revisits a favorite theme: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response, explored using art as a context. For Chrtien, art is about acts in response to what the artist sees or hears and how these acts provoke responses from viewers. Deeply spiritual and intellectual without being academic, his arguments are unique, in both style and content.
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The Call and the Response
In the aptly titled The Call and the Response, renowned philosopher and theologian Jean-Louis Chrtien revisits a favorite theme: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response, explored using art as a context. For Chrtien, art is about acts in response to what the artist sees or hears and how these acts provoke responses from viewers. Deeply spiritual and intellectual without being academic, his arguments are unique, in both style and content.
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The Call and the Response

The Call and the Response

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The Call and the Response

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In the aptly titled The Call and the Response, renowned philosopher and theologian Jean-Louis Chrtien revisits a favorite theme: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response, explored using art as a context. For Chrtien, art is about acts in response to what the artist sees or hears and how these acts provoke responses from viewers. Deeply spiritual and intellectual without being academic, his arguments are unique, in both style and content.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780823222988
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 03/01/2004
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy , #33
Edition description: 2
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jean-Louis Chrtien is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-IV, Sorbonne. His books in English translation include The Unforgettable and the Unhoped For, The Call and the Response, and Hand to Hand: Listening to the Work of Art; he is also co-editor of Phenomenology and the Theological Turn: The French Debate (all Fordham).

Anne A. Davenport teaches humanities at Boston College.

Table of Contents

Translator's Prefacevii
Introduction1
1.Call and Response5
2.The Visible Voice33
3.The Other Voice44
4.Body and Touch83
Publications by Jean-Louis Chretien133
Index135
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