Many moral philosophers have begun to think about the significance of our story-telling habits for moral reflection. Recently skeptics of narrative's relevance have begun to mount a vigorous resistanc
This book focuses on apse mosaics in Rome, which were commissioned by a series of popes between the sixth and ninth centuries CE. Through a synchronic approach that challenges current conceptions about how works of art interact with historical time, Erik Thunø proposes that the apse mosaics produce an inter-visual network that collapses their chronological succession in time into a continuous present in which the faithful join the saints in the one living body of the Church of Rome. Throughout, this book situates the apse mosaics within the broader context of viewership, the cult of relics, epigraphic tradition, and church ritual while engaging topics concerned with intercession, materiality, repetition and vision.
Gendron (French language and literature, Marquette U., Wisconsin) meditates on the boundary between the true and the false, and what repetition in its various manifestations can reveal about how such
Michael Lavin and M. Andrew Holowchak critically analyze the concept of repetition in the early stages of Freud’s development of psychoanalysis, both as a therapeutic technique and as part of a
