Arta redă paradisul: scrieri despre artă

by Jacques Maritain, Alin Tat (trad., pref.), Marius Boldor (trad.)

Volumul de față cuprinde o selecție de texte despre artă, din opera filosofului catolic francez Jacques Maritain (1882-1973).

„Preocuparea pentru artă nu este una secundară în gîndirea lui Maritain, decît poate în sensul în care ea derivă, firesc, din nucleul metafizic al filosofiei sale. Pusă în opere, această tematică se regăsește în mai multe cărți: Artă și scolastică (1920), Răspuns lui Jean Cocteau (1926), Frontierele poeziei (1935), Situația poeziei (1938), Intuiția creatoare în artă și în poezie (1953).
Cel puțin două sînt direcțiile din care poate fi abordat acest versant al operei lui Maritain, și anume dinspre o «filosofie a artei» – sintagmă pe care el o preferă termenului, considerat reductiv, de «estetică» – sau pornind de la diversele observații pe care le formulează cu privire la un artist sau altul, la poeți, la pictori, la muzicieni. Arta modernă are pentru el o semnificație aparte, marcată de conștientizarea noului statut al artistului – autonomia – și de finalitatea operei sale, judecată exclusiv din perspectiva frumosului de atins.“ (Alin Tat)

130 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2015

About the author

T. S. Eliot once called Jacques Maritain "the most conspicuous figure and probably the most powerful force in contemporary philosophy." His wife and devoted intellectual companion, Raissa Maritain, was of Jewish descent but joined the Catholic church with him in 1906. Maritain studied under Henri Bergson but was dissatisfied with his teacher's philosophy, eventually finding certainty in the system of St. Thomas Aquinas. He lectured widely in Europe and in North and South America, and lived and taught in New York during World War II. Appointed French ambassador to the Vatican in 1945, he resigned in 1948 to teach philosophy at Princeton University, where he remained until his retirement in 1953. He was prominent in the Catholic intellectual resurgence, with a keen perception of modern French literature. Although Maritain regarded metaphysics as central to civilization and metaphysically his position was Thomism, he took full measure of the intellectual currents of his time and articulated a resilient and vital Thomism, applying the principles of scholasticism to contemporary issues. In 1963, Maritain was honored by the French literary world with the national Grand Prize for letters. He learned of the award at his retreat in a small monastery near Toulouse where he had been living in ascetic retirement for some years. In 1967, the publication of "The Peasant of the Garonne" disturbed the French Roman Catholic world. In it, Maritain attacked the "neo-modernism" that he had seen developing in the church in recent decades, especially since the Second Vatican Council. According to Jaroslav Pelikan, writing in the Saturday Review of Literature, "He laments that in avant-garde Roman Catholic theology today he can 'read nothing about the redeeming sacrifice or the merits of the Passion.' In his interpretation, the whole of the Christian tradition has identified redemption with the sacrifice of the cross. But now, all of that is being discarded, along with the idea of hell, the doctrine of creation out of nothing, the infancy narratives of the Gospels, and belief in the immortality of the human soul." Maritain's wife, Raissa, also distinguished herself as a philosophical author and poet. The project of publishing Oeuvres Completes of Jacques and Raissa Maritain has been in progress since 1982, with seven volumes now in print.

Reviews

[Cami Di · Rating 5 out of 5]

O carte excepțională despre cum pot fi văzute, definite arta, poezia prin ochii unui filosof creștin. De-a lungul istoriei și atemporal.