Open AccessResponse to Melissa Raphael
Author(s) -
Ruth Illman
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
approaching religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.104
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1799-3121
DOI - 10.30664/ar.67588
Subject(s) - commodification , beauty , face (sociological concept) , aesthetics , sociology , art , art history , social science , economics , market economy
A response to Melissa Raphael’s article ‘The creation of beauty by its destruction: the idoloclastic aesthetic in modern and contemporary Jewish art’. Key themes discussed include the notion of human beings as created in the image of God, Levinas’s understanding of the face and its ethical demand as well as the contemporary issue of the commodification of the human face in digital media.