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

Mass Society and Its Culture, and Three Essays concerning Etienne Gilson on Bergson, Christian Philosophy, and Art - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Étienne Gilson, Henri Gouhier, James G. Colbert (Translator)Publish date:2023-01-24Pages:196
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cascade BooksISBN-13:9781666717921ISBN-10:1666717924UPC:9781666717921Book Category:Religion, Art, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Christianity, History, AestheticsBook Topic:Literature & the ArtsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC2F5PFVK0
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cascade BooksISBN-13:9781666717921ISBN-10:1666717924UPC:9781666717921Book Category:Religion, Art, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Christianity, History, AestheticsBook Topic:Literature & the ArtsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC2F5PFVK0
?tienne Gilson (1884-1974) was a medievalist who taught at various French institutions, including the Coll?ge de France. Among his numerous works are The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy, his 1931 and 1932 Gifford Lectures (Cascade, 2019), and Medieval Essays (Cascade, 2011).
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