/lit/ - Literature

>>2616164
a god is a type of artwork that is working. when art is working it is opening up a world, i.e. shine its light. they make intelligible for a culture what matters, making intelligible their world and who the people are.

two types of artwork: reconfigurers adn articulators.

e.g. jesus: reconfigurer: opened up the world of christianity to many of the jews and gentiles. john/augustine/etc: articulators: made sense of what jesus said.

e.g. reconfigurer: marlyn monroe: goddess of femininity for the 50s. showed people what it means to be a sexy woman etc.

for more on this: see later Heidegger, for instance "The Origin of the Work of Art."

THE AMBASSADOR OF HELL