Events for 5 May 2024

MBIT discussion group for conference: Art, Desire, and God: Phenomenological Perspectives (with Notre Dame University) What is the role of the desire of/for God in art and aesthetic experience from a phenomenological perspective? The phenomenological tradition is arguably marked by two distinct turns: to the aesthetic and, more recently, to the theological, both of which seek to negotiate the relationship between the subject and its correlate, whether objective or not. Desire for both turns is instrumental in the reconciliation of these two poles. The shape that desire takes determines the manner by which God or the Absolute figures into the analysis. The recent debates concerning the [...]