Image Politics
The Monotheistic Prohibition of Images and its Afterlife in Political Aesthetics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12643281 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gertrud Koch (Research Center on Aesthetic Experience Free University Berlin, Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 341-354 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Horizons (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1440-9917 • E-ISSN: 1568-5160 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/1440991713z.00000000013 |
| OpenAlex | W2096187287 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
This essay focuses on the ongoing references made to the ban on graven images for the foundation of political aesthetics. In this tradition the image itself plays a significant role in the creation of a dichotomy in which the image becomes either “icon” or false appearance. The image in this tradition is a powerful agent and gains as such performative power. From the Bible to Kant and German idealism to Adorno and Deleuze, the prohibition of the image signals its power and turns it into a strong magnet in political aesthetics, may it be affirmative or negative
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Foundation (evidence · Icon · Idealism · Image (mathematics · Performative utterance · Physics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Computer Science · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |