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Hand to Hand: Listening to the Work of Art
Contributor(s): Chretien, Jean-Louis (Author), Lewis, Stephen E. (Translator)

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 ISBN: 0823222896     ISBN-13: 9780823222896
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2003
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Annotation: A leading philosopher and theologian, Jean-Louis Chrtien uses poetry and painting to explore a theme that runs through all of his work: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response. For Chrtien, we live by responding to the call of experience with words, gestures, expressions, and silence. In luminous meditations on Rembrandt, Delacroix, Manet, Verlaine, Keats, and other artists, Chrtien shows how talking hands of painters and the secretly lucid voices of poets confront the finitude of the human body. Hand to Hand is a deeply cultured renewal of art in all its provocative, transforming, spiritual presence.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Aesthetics
- Philosophy | Religious
- Religion | Christian Theology - General
Dewey: 261.57
LCCN: 2003011118
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6.24" W x 8.62" L (0.79 lbs) 184 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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A leading philosopher and theologian, Jean-Louis Chrtien uses poetry and painting to explore a theme that runs through all of his work: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response. For Chrtien, we live by responding to the call of experience with words, gestures, expressions, and silence. In luminous meditations on Rembrandt, Delacroix, Manet, Verlaine, Keats, and other artists, Chrtien shows how talking hands of paintersand the secretly lucidvoices of poets confront the finitude of the human body. Hand to Hand is a deeply cultured renewal of art in all its provocative, transforming, spiritual presence.

Contributor Bio(s): Chretien, Jean-Louis: -

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).

Lewis, Stephen E.: - Stephen E. Lewis is Associate Professor of English at the Franciscan University of Steubenville.
 
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