Profundity: A Universal Value - Rilegato

Harrell, Jean Gabbert

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0271008490 ISBN 13: 9780271008493

Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 1992

Riassunto

The crisis or "death" of philosophy currently identified both within and outside professional circles is commonly attributed to the failure to find universals in metaphysics, epistemology, and, most obviously, in valuational judgment. Profundity concentrates on an assumption uniformly upheld in the theory of value, that all human values are contextually dependent. Harrell contends, to the contrary, that there exists one major value that is universal to humans, regardless of context. That value is profundity, or depth.
Considering how "profundity" is used in our language leads Harrell to identify two fundamental sensory patterns that are common to all human life at its origin - an auditory pattern that is first experienced before birth and a visual one that is experienced immediately after birth. From analysis of these patterns as they recur in music and the visual arts, Harrell moves on to discuss their related manifestations in religious doctrine, ceremony, and experience and also in works of literature. Overall her theory entails a radical revamping of the concept of creativity, since no artist can create profundity as a universal value, and provides the first full-scale treatment of profundity in the history of Western philosophy.

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L'autore:

Jean Gabbert Harrell is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at California State University, Hayward. She is the author ofSoundtracks: A Study of Auditory Perception, Memory, and Valuation (1986) and editor of the English translation ofThe Work of Music and the Problem of Its Identity by Roman Ingarden (1986).

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Book by Jean G Harrell

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• Editore: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0271008490
• ISBN 13: 9780271008493
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 208