Re-Enchantment

by James Elkins

Book Overview

The near-absence of religion from contemporary discourse on art is one of the most fundamental issues in postmodernism. Artists critical of religion can find voices in the art world, but religion itself, including spirituality, is taken to be excluded by the very project of modernism. The sublime, "re-enchantment" (as in Weber), and the aura (as in Benjamin) have been used to smuggle religious concepts back into academic writing, but there is still...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415960525
• ISBN13: 9780415960526
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.1"