Aesthetics and the Work of Art: Adorno, Kafka, Richter - Hardcover

by A. Regier (Editor), Kenneth A. Loparo (Editor)

This is the first major response to the new challenge of neuroscience to religion. There have been limited responses from a purely Christian point of view, but this takes account of eastern as well as western forms of religious experience. It challenges the prevailing naturalistic assumption of our culture, including the idea that the mind is either identical with or a temporary by-product of brain activity. It also discusses religion as institutions and religion as inner experience of the Transcendent, and suggests a form of spirituality for today.

Author Biography

PETER DE BOLLA is Reader in Cultural History and Aesthetics at the University of Cambridge, UK ANTHONY J. CASCARDI is Director of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley, USA HOWARD CAYGILL is Professor of Cultural History at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK STANLEY CORNGOLD is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, USA SIMON JARVIS is Gorley Putt Reader in Poetry and Poetics at the University of Cambridge, UK STEPHEN MELVILLE is Professor of the History of Art at Ohio State University, USA MARC REDFIELD teaches literature and literary theory at Claremont Graduate University, USA TIMOTHY J. REISS is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at New York University, USA JULIAN ROBERTS is Professor of Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich, Germany MIGUEL TAMEN is professor of Literary Theory at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a regular visiting professor at the University of Chicago, USA STEFAN H. UHLIG is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cambridge, UK