The author begins by contrasting two civilizations.
Ancient Greece places truth in seeing. Christianity, the author argues, shifts truth from the eye to the ear.
The monster is the failure of vision. 😘
That explains why the author ends with Francis Bacon. Not the philosopher, but the painter.
Bacon’s paintings don’t merely depict distorted flesh.
They refuse to let you settle into recognition.
His figures are neither fully human nor inhuman.
They’re caught in the space where vision itself begins to fail.
Some things are meant to be heard rather than seen.
Some truths can only be approached with closed eyes.
Translated From Above in English:
Francis Bacon / Three works for the crucifixion diagram of Christ)
But first of all, what is a monster? The etymology tells us something a little surprising. The origin of the monster is montrer (show, show, expose). ( ......) Therefore, becoming a monster means being deeply exposed by the eyes.
(Michel Tournier/Demon King)
Ancient Greek philosophy is essential to see, that is, theoria, but Christianity is essential to deny it. Augitum verbi Dei, id est fidem. ( To listen to God's words, that's the faith). " The ears, only the ears, are the organs of Christians" (Luther). The origin of the word mystery (English) is myein, and its original meaning is to close the eyes. In the medieval Christian world, hearing was considered the most sophisticated perception and vision was said to be inferior. The development of that great Gregorian hymn. Luther, a tenor singer and the founder of German colar. J.S. Bach as a worshiper. According to Roland Barth, a certain monk in the Middle Ages lived by limiting the range of his gaze to 1m70cm and never looking ahead. From an ancient Greek-style worship where you spread your hands wide and look up to the sky, to a Christian-style worship where you open your eyes and put your hands together to listen to God's words. The thoroughness of idol destruction (iconoclassism) boils down to the denial of vision itself. Since 727, the so-called icon controversy has been fought fiercely for more than a century. The essence of the Renaissance is to break away from hearing, and the essence of the Reformation is to return to hearing. God should be amorphous because he transcends this world, and therefore he can't be visible. It's not that God in the Old Testament didn't appear, but he couldn't see it in the first place, but if God is amorphous, his own What will happen to the anecdote of creating human beings by imitating their appearance? Isn't it a clear contradiction that those who do not have a form imitate their appearance? However, our Christ was not visible to all people. Or, isn't that clearly written in the New Testament, if that's the case, God doesn't necessarily deny vision, but... and so on. In other words, it will be like this. The monster in the medieval Christian world is the vision itself. God created those people as his own image" (Genesis 1:27). In addition, the origin of the word image (English or French) is imago (Ra), and in addition to the meaning of appearance and portrait, there are also meanings of illusion, ghost, and pretense. However, if God does not have a form, we who are in that image should also not have a form either. We are amorphous. Just as God is amorphous. There is no fixed form that as long as you have this form, you are a human being. No matter how crooked it is, it can be human. Rather, the process of the mass of meat being distorted, crushed, and twisted is human in itself. I'll tell you. When you still try to see a person who has no form, it is exposed in theory. This is the monster. Francis Bacon was a very theological writer who painted monsters (monstrum) in the strict usage of Latin...
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