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The religion of reality : inquiry into the self, art, and transcendence / Didier Maleuvre.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2006.Description: viii, 318 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0813214548 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780813214542 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 111/.85 22
LOC classification:
  • BL65.A4 M25 2006
Other classification:
  • 08.31
  • 08.41
Online resources:
Contents:
Seeds of emancipation -- Severing the ties that bind -- The romantic solipsist -- A church of one -- "And Zarathustra saw that he was alone" -- Longing for the world -- The idol fallen and resurrected -- The prison -- The sense of reality -- How reality was lost -- The battle over reality -- On representation -- On love, beauty, and evil -- Art and experience -- The will to weakness -- Art and imagination -- Art and nature -- Submission, necessity, death -- Art and sacrifice -- Art and work -- The comedy of art -- The religion in art -- Art and love -- Postscript on art and religion.
1. Introduction -- 2. Seeds of emancipation -- 3. Severing the ties that bind -- 4. The romantic solipsist -- 5. A church of one -- 6. "And Zarathustra saw that he was alone" -- 7. Longing for the world -- 8. The idol fallen and resurrected -- 9. The prison -- 10. The sense of reality -- 11. How reality was lost -- 12. The battle over reality -- 13. On representation -- 14. On love, beauty, and evil -- 15. Art and experience -- 16. The will to weakness -- 17. Art and imagination -- 18. Art and nature -- 19. Submission, necessity, death -- 20. Art and sacrifice -- 21. Art and work -- 22. The comedy of art -- 23. The religion in art -- 24. Art and love -- 25. Postscript on art and religion.
Review: "The Religion of Reality takes to task the assumption according to which the modern intellect is devoid of the transcendental. The book first argues that religious feeling persists in the secular western mind; that it has taken refuge in the unlikeliest of camps, with the supposed debunker of religious creed: the rationalist existential ego. The autonomous, individual self is the pillar of modern times - a deity that anchors our morals, politics, and society, and defines what is crucial about human existence. On this score, The Religion of Reality makes two points: first that the philosophic primacy of the self rests on a leap of faith; and second that its religious centrality cannot ultimately satisfy the transcendental thirst that it kindles."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-313) and index.

Seeds of emancipation -- Severing the ties that bind -- The romantic solipsist -- A church of one -- "And Zarathustra saw that he was alone" -- Longing for the world -- The idol fallen and resurrected -- The prison -- The sense of reality -- How reality was lost -- The battle over reality -- On representation -- On love, beauty, and evil -- Art and experience -- The will to weakness -- Art and imagination -- Art and nature -- Submission, necessity, death -- Art and sacrifice -- Art and work -- The comedy of art -- The religion in art -- Art and love -- Postscript on art and religion.

1. Introduction -- 2. Seeds of emancipation -- 3. Severing the ties that bind -- 4. The romantic solipsist -- 5. A church of one -- 6. "And Zarathustra saw that he was alone" -- 7. Longing for the world -- 8. The idol fallen and resurrected -- 9. The prison -- 10. The sense of reality -- 11. How reality was lost -- 12. The battle over reality -- 13. On representation -- 14. On love, beauty, and evil -- 15. Art and experience -- 16. The will to weakness -- 17. Art and imagination -- 18. Art and nature -- 19. Submission, necessity, death -- 20. Art and sacrifice -- 21. Art and work -- 22. The comedy of art -- 23. The religion in art -- 24. Art and love -- 25. Postscript on art and religion.

"The Religion of Reality takes to task the assumption according to which the modern intellect is devoid of the transcendental. The book first argues that religious feeling persists in the secular western mind; that it has taken refuge in the unlikeliest of camps, with the supposed debunker of religious creed: the rationalist existential ego. The autonomous, individual self is the pillar of modern times - a deity that anchors our morals, politics, and society, and defines what is crucial about human existence. On this score, The Religion of Reality makes two points: first that the philosophic primacy of the self rests on a leap of faith; and second that its religious centrality cannot ultimately satisfy the transcendental thirst that it kindles."--BOOK JACKET.

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