The Work of Art: Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Jackson, Michael D.

The Work of Art: Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780231178181)

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The Work of Art: Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Jackson, Michael D.

The Work of Art: Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life

$42.00
The Work of Art: Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Jackson, Michael D.

The Work of Art: Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life

$42.00
Format: Hardcover
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How are we to think of works of art? Rather than treat art as an expression of individual genius, market forces, or aesthetic principles, Michael Jackson focuses on how art effects transformations in our lives. Art opens up transitional, ritual, or utopian spaces that enable us to reconcile inward imperatives and outward constraints, thereby making our lives more manageable and meaningful. Art allows us to strike a balance between being actors and being acted upon.

Drawing on his ethnographic fieldwork in Aboriginal Australia and West Africa, as well as insights from psychoanalysis, religious studies, literature, and the philosophy of art, Jackson deploys an extraordinary range of references--from Bruegel to Beuys, Paleolithic art to performance art, Michelangelo to Munch--to explore the symbolic labor whereby human beings make themselves, both individually and socially, out of the environmental, biographical, and physical materials that affect them: a process that connects art with gestation, storytelling, and dreaming and illuminates the elementary forms of religious life.

Author: Michael D. Jackson
ISBN-10: 0231178182
ISBN-13: 9780231178181
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/25/2016
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/08/2016
Choice 08/01/2017
By Michael D. Jackson
By Michael D. Jackson
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Michael Jackson is Distinguished Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of the prize-winning Paths Toward a Clearing (1989) and At Home in the World (2000). His most recent Columbia University Press books include As Wide as the World Is Wise: Reinventing Philosophical Anthropology (2016) and Harmattan: A Philosophical Fiction (2015). He is also the author of The Wherewithal of Life: Ethics, Migration, and the Question of Well-being (2013); Between One and One Another (2012); and Lifeworlds: Essays in Existential Anthropology (2012).

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