Jean-Paul Sartre offers a different way of looking at artworks. He offers psychological as well as phenomenological perspectives. The artworks referred to by Sartre include music, painting, literature, and theater. In his thoughts related to works of art, Sartre offers a notion of analogon, that has a key role to explain his concept of imagination. With this notion, he goes further to explain t…
‘Faith’ in fact is such a strange word today, let alone ‘religious faith’. Strange, since despite its ubiquity, the word seems to have lost its vigour and credence. Perhaps this is on the one hand due to the violent excesses of religious faith, and on the other, related to the pretension of modern scientific rationality to be neutral -as if it has nothing to do with any sort of faith…