Die Zeit der Bilder

While iconicity for Lessing was characterized by spatiality, he viewed language and music as being wholly orientated towards the temporal. But is time really the Other of the image, or do they not rather mediate one another in visual experience? Do images compete with eternity because in them time seems to stand still, or do they manifest their own temporality because they often disclose gaps between absence and presence? The visibility of time in pictures, imagination and remembrance in Augustine, Sartre's timelessness of the image, the theology of the image, the visualization of sign-language, and the experience of time in photography are all considered here under these guiding questions.Michael Moxter: Einleitung - Gottfried Boehm: Die Sichtbarkeit der Zeit und die Logik des Bildes - Johann Kreuzer: Imagination und Erinnerung bei Augustinus - Jens Bonnemann: Die Zeitlosigkeit des Bildes bei Sartre - Reinhard Hoeps: Bildandachten. Präsenz und Zeitenabstand - Friedhelm Hartenstein: Ikonizität und Narrativität. Drei Fallbeispiele zu antiken kulturellen Grundtexten (Gilgamesch, Ilias, Exodus) - Petruschka Schaafsma: Telling Images. On the Value of a 'Strong Image' for Theological Ethics - Kristóf Nyíri: Bedeutung und Motorik - Dieter Mersch: 'Axthieb durch die Zeit'. Zeitriss und Zeitverkehrung im Zeitalter der Fotografie