Ikonoklazm jako dyskurs
Iconoclasm as Discourse: from Antiquity to Byzantium

Summary/Abstract: Iconoclasm from archaic Greek antiquity into Byzantium was an attack on the real presence of the depicted prototype through an assault on its material image. But during the moment of Byzantine Iconoclasm in the eighth and ninth centuries, for the first time, thinks on both sides of the debate – Iconophiles and Iconoclasts – considered the image entirely as representation. This is a transformative moment in the discourse of images in the entire Western tradition. For it liberated the image from an emphasis on ontology to place it in an epistemological relation to its referent. The impulse in Byzantium to re-evaluate the meanings of images emerged from debates within ancient pre-Christian culture, between Christians and pagans, and between Christians, Jews, and Muslims. It was a profound influence on the understandings of images in the later Middle Ages and the Reformation.

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