...Environmental philosophy has ignored the holy beauty that should be its starting point. The Byzantine icon shows how to approach this numinous beauty that the earth harbors, and this is argued through several parallels. First, both icon and earth are inherently material. Second, both are non...

...The chapter analyses the ‘facial-expression’–code in recent emotion-research (neuro-psychology) as a modern equivalent to the vera icon-problem in the image of Christ's face, namely the image of the face representing inaccessible traces of something entirely heterogeneous: emotions...

...This chapter explains the distinction between the notion of the idol and that of the icon. It evaluates the significance and meaning of the “death of God,” as announced by Nietzsche. Marion shows how and why God is beyond being and highlights the importance of the language of love. He provides...

... examines how Marion reads such phenomena, using the example of the icon. Janicaud Dominique Marion Jean–Lue phenomena religious as bringing to light phenomenon phenomena given return revelation Revelation truth Derrida Jacques x–xi Greisch Jean Heidegger llartin Husserl Edmund 19–29 es gibt...

...This chapter examines premodern ways of thinking God through the prosopon and icon. It first discusses the ontological necessity of freedom toward death and love. It holds that the aporia in the discussion is the inability to imagine freedom prior to its existence. Then it distinguishes...

...The introduction provides a historical and theoretical context for the study. It discusses the emergence of the painter as a literary character in the nineteenth century and the changes it produced in portrait stories; introduces C. S. Peirce’s terms “icon” and “index,” which will be used...

... the first icon of God, albeit obscured through human fallenness; its view of nature as cosmic liturgy, and redemption as cosmic in scope; and its claim that these truths can be apprehended through the ascetic purification of the heart. These insights are articulated eloquently in the writings of St Isaac...

... a fetish (a concealing object standing in for something else) to an icon (an image) and, finally, to a mere symbol (a sign). Yet from the eighteenth century up to the present day, the status of the Sacred Heart has remained a source of theological contestation between Jesuits and orthodox Catholics, who...

... Virilio Virilio Paul Speed and Politics oil holy Rossi Padre Marcelo María Lionza possession cult Weber Samuel Latour Bruno Weibel Peter Icon Materiality Still Motion Paradox Electronic media Catholic Charismatics Brazil In this chapter, I will assess the role and place of modern religious...

... of breakthrough: the idol whose luster is closely related to the thematics of overwhelming in La Transfiguration, and the icon which Marion relates to a different sort of excess than that which can be found in the idol. This chapter analyzes where the phenomenology of idol and icon provide a key...

...The chapter departs from discussing the applicability of Peirce's semiotics (with the distinction of icon, index, and symbol) to images, which forms the background for the concept of the ‘indexical image’. It approaches the position of the latter within image-theory through the question whether...