The Forbidden Image

Name: The Forbidden Image
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Author: Alain Besancon
ISBN: 9780226044149

An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm

by Alain Besancon

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448 pages
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

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Philosophers and theologians have long engaged in intense debate and introspection over the representation of the deity, its possibilities and its proscriptions. "The Forbidden Image" traces the dual strains of 'iconophilia' and iconoclasm, the privileging and prohibition of religious images, over a span of two-and-a-half millennia in the West. Alain Besancon's work begins with a comprehensive examination of the status of the image in Greek, Judaic, Islamic, and Christian thought. The author then addresses arguments regarding the moral authority of the image in European Christianity from the medieval through the early modern periods. Besancon completes "The Forbidden Image" with an examination of how iconophilia and iconoclasm have been debated in the modern period.