This interdisciplinary volume addresses the tension between illusion and appearance. The starting point is three differentiated forms of "Schein" in German: as a ray of light itself, as in "shine," or appearance as becoming visible or, finally, as an illusion seeming to be so. The contributions analyze under which cultural-historical conditions and within which concrete forms aesthetic configurations are perceived and evaluated.

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A. Gerok-Reiter , M. Kovacs and I. Männlein-Robert , Tübingen University, Germany; V. Leppin , Yale Divinity School, New Haven, USA.