Making the Heavens Speak by Peter Sloterdijk, Robert Hughes - 9781509547494

Making the Heavens SpeakReligion as Poetry\nAuthor(s): Peter Sloterdijk, Robert Hughes\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509547494, 978-1509547494\nSynopsis\nThe idea of a connection between poetry and religion is as old as civilization. Homer consulted the Olympian gods on the fate of the fighters on the plain before Troy, and the poet made the heavenly ones speak. It was through poetry that the gods were brought within reach of human hearing. In the centuries after Homer, the Athenian stage became the setting where gods made their poetic interventions, resolving human impasses and contributing to the emotional synchronization of the public life of the city. Sloterdijk argues that, as with the culture of the Ancient Greeks, all religions inscribe a kind of theopoetry at the heart of their cultural life and thought, even as they strenuously obscure these poetic origins through the cultivation and enforcement of.