Re-reading what was written by Florenskij ( Doors gifts. icon Essay, edited by Elémire Zolla, Milano, Adelphi, 2002), came to my mind a parallel with the argument for Raffaele Simone ( The third stage. Forms of knowledge that we are losing, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2000) argues that, after the invention of writing and printing, the emergence of a third phase in which, compared to the cultural tradition of the printing, the image is central. Florenskij Certainly, as a Christian ordodosso, has witnessed a religion and a culture that has sustained it as few others the importance of the image and not his speech does not relate to the image as such but on a particular type of image. .. However, the icon is placed on the same level of oral communication (there is an "equivalence and preaching icon: the painting of icons for the eyes is like the word for the ears," p. 175) and written text (p. 95). And he admits that "icons are the ads for the truth to anyone, even illiteracy, and the theological writings are accessible to few and therefore less responsible" (p. 84), it is also true that those who paint icons are "philosophical with the brush "(p. 174). As we speak the sacred texts and images the parallel is interesting: the answer to Simon would be to emphasize that his is an internal reconstruction of the history of Western culture ...
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