“each culture could adhere only to its own notion of the true and the false, through values that were immanent in particular social and institutional forms.” [Colquhoun, 1985, p. 204] The position was developed comprehensively by Friedrich Nietzsche, for whom we literally make reality, and ...
Thus, the apparent paradox of negative emotions in an ultimately pleasurable aesthetic experience is solved in terms of a cognitive process: the tension between negative and positive emotions is explained, according to Jean-Marie Schaeffer, by adding the notion of attention as a derivative of the ...
As a notion, 'simulacrum' covers a variety of hybrid, liminal and often spectral figures populating the premodern, modern and contemporary imagination: from statues to puppets, from golems to homunculi, from automata to robots, from cyborgs to avatars and, ultimately, Arti...
33 In works like A Sketch of the Past Woolf develops a notion of temporality that relies on minimal formal units such as the sketch, the scene, and the interlude. Time and vision interact, when, for instance, in A Sketch of the Past, Woolf compares vision to memory, and reflects on ...
(i.e. physical) LGBT communities across the nation’s first-tier cities, Progressively comfortable with their sexual orientation, admittedly known or unknown to their next of kin, this generation moves forward China’s relatively newborn open and outspoken notion of equality in sexuality. China’s...
” Since art once had an important decorative function, “any branch of philosophy that dealt with ‘beauty’ and thus, taste, was inevitably duty bound to discuss art as well. Out of this ‘habit’ grew the notion that there was a conceptual connection between art and aesthetics, which is...
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While criticizing the short-sighted notion that Śitalā in northern and Mariamman in southern India are the disease themselves, both Srinivasan and Ferrari point out that the disease7 or the Goddess8 are conceived as a latent potential within the human body itself. Therefore, I would like to ...
At present, the Liu-Yuan Garden covers an area of approximately 2.33 ha and is open to the public as a garden museum. It is one of the most important representatives of CCGs, and it has been listed as a national cultural relic of China since 1961 and as a UNESCO World Heritage Site ...