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Definition:
A traditional understanding of art icorporates the idea that certain words are
"timeless," which means that they have some universal appeal to humans regardless of
time, politics, culture, etc. The best works of art are those which exhibit such
timeless, universal appeal and the lowest works are those which are unable to rise above
the political or cultural conditions in which they are produced. C.G. Jung's idea of a
"visionary mode"
of producing art is a means of expressing how and why some works of art
might be genuinely timeless.
Postmodern critiques of art and culture vehemently reject the notion of timelessness, likening it to a form of logocentrism in which a particular symbol has some sort of eternal and universal meaning. Through the use of semiotics, it is argued that works of art have an unlimited range of meanings and, as such cannot necessary carry the same meaning to people of some other time and culture.
Also Known As: transhistorical
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What is Aesthetics?
In philosophy, aesthetics is the study of beauty and taste, whether in the form of the comic, the tragic or the sublime. Aesthetics has traditionally been part of other philosophical pursuits like the investigation of epistemology or ethics. However, it started to come into its own and become a more independent pursuit under Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher who saw aesthetics as a unitary and self-sufficient type of human experience.What is Philosophy?
What is philosophy? Is there any point in studying philosophy, or is it a useless subject? What are the different branches of philosophy - what's the difference between aestheitcs and ethics? What's the difference between metaphysics and epistemology?
