By John D. Caputo
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Søren Kierkegaard is without doubt one of the prophets of the modern age, a guy whose acute observations on sleek ecu existence could have been written the previous day, whose paintings expected primary advancements in psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology, and the critique of mass tradition by way of greater than a century. John D. Caputo deals a compelling account of Kierkegaard as a philosopher of specific relevance in our postmodern occasions, who trigger a revolution that counts Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida between its heirs. His conceptions of fact as a self-transforming “deed” and his haunting account of the “single person” appear to have been written particularly with us in brain. Extracts contain Kierkegaard’s vintage interpreting of the tale of Abraham and Isaac, the innovative concept that fact is subjectivity, and his groundbreaking research of contemporary bourgeois lifestyles.
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The term “ko’i” was by no means applied monolithically, however. Melinda Takeuchi points to one clear case in Japanese art-historical writing where “ko’i” was reinterpreted to allow for artistic license. ”31 For Gyokush≥, then, ko’i did not entail a servile adherence to original antique paintings. In terms of the Chinese concept guzhuo, known in Japan as kosetsu, its meaning is given in English as “antique simplicity” and “clumsiness,” but essentially kosetsu refers to artworks that follow traditional models.
55 Gyokush≥’s and Kenkad≤’s motives in delineating a distinctly Japanese literati style of painting—as well as their search for earlier origins of a Southern school reaching back beyond the generation of Gion Nankai—must be set in the context of their times and against the backdrop of multifold activities of social and political elites. The personalities involved in such activities had as their goal the creation of a distinctly Japanese tradition realized in part through collecting, recording, copying, and reevaluating works of art and literature.
Heinrich Wölfflin and offer a critical analysis of the discourse surrounding classicism in Japan, Western Europe, and the United States. The Chinese art historian John Hay (b. ”3 One might add that a Eurocentric bias informs the academic exercise of locating equivalents for classicism in a non-Western context. As we shall see, however, aesthetic and ideological concepts that are similar to classicism did exist in Japan during the Tokugawa period and later. Such concepts played a role in setting standards and establishing canons, as critics chose to appraise certain artists and schools of art while they disqualified others.