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New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2017. ISBN: 9781474299169. Hardback. 232 pages. John Manoussakis’s latest book, The Ethics of [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/review-the-ethics-of-time-matthew-clemente/) ![The Vertical Form – The Iconological Dimension in 20th Century Russian Religious Aesthetics and Literary Criticism, Part II (Oleg Komkov)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/03/11932077953_0f5e07d6f2_b.webp) ### [The Vertical Form – The Iconological Dimension in 20th Century Russian Religious Aesthetics and Literary Criticism, Part II (Oleg Komkov)](/religioustheory/posts/the-vertical-form-iconological-dimension-in-20th-century-russian-religious-aesthetics-and-literary-criticism-part-ii-oleg-komkov/) March 31, 2018 — By Oleg Komkov The following is the second part in a two-part installment. The first part can be found here. II. “Absolute Symbolism” of Christian Worldview: The Aesthetic [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-vertical-form-iconological-dimension-in-20th-century-russian-religious-aesthetics-and-literary-criticism-part-ii-oleg-komkov/) ![The Vertical Form – The Iconological Dimension in 20th Century Russian Religious Aesthetics and Literary Criticism, Part I (Oleg Komkov)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/03/umberto_boccioni_1913_dynamism_of_a_cyclist_dinamismo_di_un_ciclista_oil_on_canvas_70_x_95_cm_gianni_mattioli_collection_on_long-term_loan_to_the_peggy_gugg.webp) ### [The Vertical Form – The Iconological Dimension in 20th Century Russian Religious Aesthetics and Literary Criticism, Part I (Oleg Komkov)](/religioustheory/posts/the-vertical-form-iconological-dimension-in-20th-century-russian-religious-aesthetics-and-literary-criticism-part-i-oleg-komkov/) March 21, 2018 — By Oleg Komkov The following is the first part in a two-part installment. This article is an attempt to highlight and reflect on several interrelated issues that seem to be [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-vertical-form-iconological-dimension-in-20th-century-russian-religious-aesthetics-and-literary-criticism-part-i-oleg-komkov/) ![Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 3 (Raji Singh Soni)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/08/style-img_7932-kanagawa-0-4mp.webp) ### [Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 3 (Raji Singh Soni)](/religioustheory/posts/traversing-w-h-audens-religious-and-aesthetic-states-part-3-raji-singh-soni/) August 13, 2017 — By Raji Singh Soni The following is the final installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here, the second one here. As Julia Reinhard Lupton argues It [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/traversing-w-h-audens-religious-and-aesthetic-states-part-3-raji-singh-soni/) ![Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 2 (Raji Singh Soni)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/08/the_sea.webp) ### [Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 2 (Raji Singh Soni)](/religioustheory/posts/traversing-w-h-audens-religious-and-aesthetic-states-part-2-raji-singh-soni/) August 4, 2017 — By Raji Singh Soni The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here. Used by Auden in concert with “limitation” to qualify [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/traversing-w-h-audens-religious-and-aesthetic-states-part-2-raji-singh-soni/) ![Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 1 (Raji Singh Soni)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/07/pda44.webp) ### [Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 1 (Raji Singh Soni)](/religioustheory/posts/traversing-religious-and-aesthetic-states-in-w-h-audens-for-the-time-being-part-1-raji-singh-soni/) July 28, 2017 — By Raji Singh Soni The following is part one of an article that will be published in three successive installments. > TRINCULO Servant-monster! The folly of this island! [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/traversing-religious-and-aesthetic-states-in-w-h-audens-for-the-time-being-part-1-raji-singh-soni/) ![Hegemony And Techno-Rationality – Toward An Aesthetic Soteriology (Mason Davis)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/04/6222400489_896549e00e_o.webp) ### [Hegemony And Techno-Rationality – Toward An Aesthetic Soteriology (Mason Davis)](/religioustheory/posts/hegemony-and-techno-rationality-toward-an-aesthetic-soteriology-mason-davis/) April 18, 2017 — By Mason Davis To speak of aesthetics is not simply to consign art to its effects on sensibility, but to open up the configurations of experience that create new modalities of [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/hegemony-and-techno-rationality-toward-an-aesthetic-soteriology-mason-davis/) ![Life As Art – Aesthetic Virtue and Moral Obligation](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/02/cezanne-still-life-with-flower-holder-1905-trivium-art-history.webp) ### [Life As Art – Aesthetic Virtue and Moral Obligation](/religioustheory/posts/life-as-art-aesthetic-virtue-and-moral-obligation/) February 24, 2016 — By editors Virtue ethics has received much attention throughout the last decades. 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