Images increasingly saturate our world, making present to us what is distant or obscure. Yet the power of images also arises from what they do not make present - from a type of absence they do not dispel. Joining a growing multidisciplinary conversation that rejects an understan…
Introduction Part One Iconoclasm: The Ancient Cycle Chapter One The Philosophical Critique of the Image 1 Preliminaries: "Civil Theology" 2 Early Philosophy 3 Late Philosophy 4 The Persistence of the Pagan Image Chapter Two The Biblical Prohibition 1 The Prohibition of the Torah…
This book discusses the privileging and prohibition of religious images over two and a half millennia in the West.
