Author

Publication

2015 - Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, Germany

Language

English

Word Count

72,250 words, Guess

Page Count

289 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-103161538102
  • ISBN-139783161538100
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015394579
  • OCLC Control Number905486035
  • Better World Books9783161538100
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC205
  • LCCBJ47 .E74 2015
  • LCCBJ47 .E838 2015
and 1 more
  • LCCBJ47.E838 2015

Description

The hyphenated phrase 'in-visibility' indicates that the visible and the invisible are inseparable and yet in tension with each other. If originating from acts of (in)visibilization, both the visible and the invisible are ethically imbued. Whether we see or overlook each other, respect or dismiss another's dignity, remember or forget a history of crimes against humanity, our (over)sight has an impact on our interaction. What, then, is implied in seeing the human being as created in the image of an invisible God, as imago Dei? Which (re)sources in Judaism and Christianity can counter idolatry in the sense of cognitive captivity and experiences of abandonment after the Shoah? In addressing such questions, this book outlines an ethics of in-visibility in an interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy and theology, cultural history, art and media theory, sociology, literary and gender studies. Contributors: Christina von Braun, Iben Damgaard, Daniel Dayan, Arne Grøn, Hannes Langbein, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Melissa Raphael, N. Verbin, Alana M. Vincent, Claudia Welz, Christian Wiese, Elliot R. Wolfson.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Religion in philosophy and theology -- 77

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