Fine art as preparation for Christian love

This essay links Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenology of fine art to his description of Christian love. It does so by carefully showing how Marion's overall project is closely related to Kant's well-known account of the relationship between aesthetics and morality. While Kant and Marion bo...

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Published in:Journal of religious ethics
Main Author: Rottenberg, Ian (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley [2014]
In: Journal of religious ethics
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Marion, Jean-Luc 1946- / Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804 / Art / Love of neighbor / Morals
RelBib Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
NCA Ethics
NCB Personal ethics
Online Access: Volltext (doi)
Parallel Edition:Electronic
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Summary:This essay links Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenology of fine art to his description of Christian love. It does so by carefully showing how Marion's overall project is closely related to Kant's well-known account of the relationship between aesthetics and morality. While Kant and Marion both believe that aesthetic experience can lay the groundwork for moral action, their contrasting views of morality lead them to very different articulations of such a relationship. While Kant sees encounters with fine art as preparing individuals for the particular kinds of disinterested judgments characteristic of moral decision-making, Marion sees artwork as preparing the subject for the openness toward intuitive excess that is necessary for love.
ISSN:0384-9694
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/jore.12055