On images, visual culture, memory and the play without a script /
"Matthias Smalbrugge compares modern images to plays without a script: while they appear to refer to a deeper identity or reality, it is ultimately the image itself that truly matters. He argues that our modern society of images is the product of a destructive tendency in the Christian notion o...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
T&T Clark,
2022.
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| Series: | Reading Augustine.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. The cultural predominance of the image and its multilayered nature
- The image as a shadow. Plato's cave
- Augustine and the broader focus on image
- The different forms of similarity
- De Trinitate
- The final question : it's all about language.