The Call and the Response - Paperback

by Jean-Louis Chretien (Author), Anne A. Davenport (Translator)

In the aptly titled The Call and the Response, renowned philosopher and theologian Jean-Louis Chrétien revisits a favorite theme: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response, explored using art as a context.

For Chrétien, art is about acts in response to what the artist sees or hears and how these acts provoke responses from viewers. Deeply spiritual and intellectual without being academic, his arguments are unique, in both style and content.

Author Biography

Jean-Louis Chrtien is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-IV, Sorbonne. His books in English translation include The Unforgettable and the Unhoped For, The Call and the Response, and Hand to Hand: Listening to the Work of Art; he is also co-editor of Phenomenology and the Theological Turn: The French Debate (all Fordham).

Anne A. Davenport teaches humanities at Boston College.