Hand to Hand by Jean-Louis Chretien
A leading philosopher and theologian, Jean-Louis Chrtien uses poetry and painting to explore a theme that runs through all of his work: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response. For Chrtien, we live by responding to the call of experience with words, gestures, expressions, and silence. In luminous meditations on Rembrandt, Delacroix, Manet, Verlaine, Keats, and other artists, Chrtien shows how talking hands of paintersand the secretly lucidvoices of poets confront the finitude of the human body. Hand to Hand is a deeply cultured renewal of art in all its provocative, transforming, spiritual presence.
"[Chretien] has written a luminous meditation on various works of art-among them paintings by Rembrandt, Delacroix and Manet-in which he advocates for a 'solitary act of listening' on the part of the viewer" -- -Karl Pohrt Shaman Drum Bookshop
Jean-Louis Chretien teaches philosophy at the University of Paris IV. His books, as translated into English, include The Unforgettable and the Unhoped For (Fordham University Press, 2002), Hand to Hand (Fordham University Press, 2003), and The Call and the Response (Fordham University Press, 2004). He is one of the coeditors of Phenomenology and the "Theological Turn": The French Debate (Fordham University Press, 2000), as well as the author of the follow-up volume Phenomenology "Wide Open": After the French Debate (Fordham University Press, 2005).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780823222902 |
| ISBN 10 | 082322290X |
| Title | Hand to Hand |
| Author | Jean-Louis Chretien |
| Series | Perspectives In Continental Philosophy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Fordham University Press |
| Year published | 2003-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
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