Image, Icon, Economy: The Byzantine Origins of the Contemporary ImaginaryStanford University Press, 2005 - 264 pagini The barest awareness of the ubiquity and influence of the media today provides proof enough that our fate is in the hands of the image. But when and how was this fate sealed? Image, Icon, Economy considers this question and recounts an essential thread in the conceptualization of visual images within the Western tradition. This book argues that the extraordinary force of the image in contemporary life--the contemporary imaginary--can be traced back to the Byzantine iconoclastic controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries. It was during this period that the church was compelled to produce an account of the theological status of the religious image that would nevertheless not be open to even the slightest suspicion of idolatry. The solution arrived at was the dual doctrine of the image, invisible (and thus beyond the charge of idolatry) and the icon, visible, and thus perfectly fitted to be placed at the center of a pedagogical and political strategy serving the temporal power of the church. The foundations of this immense philosophical enterprise were laid in no less than the multifarious, interwoven strands of the divine economy, God's overall plan for the salvation of humanity. |
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Cuprins
Introduction I | 1 |
Principal Themes II | 11 |
A Semantic Study of the Term Economy | 18 |
THE ICONIC ECONOMY | 67 |
Sacred Precinct and Profane Space | 118 |
Iconic Space and Territorial Rule | 151 |
The Idols Delenda Est | 176 |
Ghost Story | 192 |
The Jew Frontally and in Profile | 209 |
Extracts from the Iconoclast Horos of Hieria | 227 |
Extracts from the Antirrhetics by Nikephoros | 233 |
Notes | 246 |
Bibliography | 259 |
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
acheiropoietic akribeia Antirrhetics appears archetype Aristotle artificial image Athanasios Basil Basil of Caesarea become Blachernai body Byzantine cerning Christ Christian Christological Chrysostom church fathers concept concerns Constantine consubstantiality cross definition diabolical discourse divine ecclesiastic effect emperor enigma essence eucharist everything face faith flesh function gaze grace graph Greek Gregory of Nazianzos hagion hiéron Holy Spirit homonymy honor human hypostasis Ibid iconic economy iconoclast iconoclastic crisis iconophile idol idolatry imaginary imitation incarnation inscription institution invisible Jacques Derrida John Chrysostom John of Damascus kenosis linked manifestation means mimésis mimetic mystery natural image Nikephoros object oikonomia passion philosophical photography political profane prototype question redemption refers relation resemblance rhetoric sacred sacredness salvation sense shroud similitude skhésis space speak speech symbolic temporal Theodore of Stoudios things tion tradition transfiguration translation trinitarian Trinity true truth unity Virgin visible voice word