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Aftermath of the Absolute
Malraux's structural-historical thesis (Part IV title and §V theme of The Voices of Silence): with the eclipse of religion as the West's organizing absolute, art itself has been promoted to the structural position the absolute occupies. Th…
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André Malraux
French novelist, art theorist, Resistance hero, and statesman (1901–1976). Author of Les Voix du silence (1951; English: The Voices of Silence, 1953), the three-volume Psychologie de l'Art (1947, 1949, 1950: Le Musée imaginaire / La Créati…
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Art as Revolt Against Fate
Malraux's cardinal closing thesis in The Voices of Silence: "All art is a revolt against man's fate" (p. 671). Across all civilizations, art's deepest function is to defend man against destiny — the masterpiece "tells of a human victory ov…
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Erregender Zwiespalt zwischen Wahrheit und Kunst
The "agitating discord" between art and truth at the heart of Nietzsche's late metaphysics. Nietzsche himself names it in 1888: "Über das Verhältnis der Kunst zur Wahrheit bin ich am frühesten ernst geworden: und noch jetzt stehe ich mit e…
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Eye and Mind
Author(s): Maurice Merleau-Ponty (trans. Carleton Dallery) Year: 1961 (written July–August 1960; published January 1961 in Art de France vol. I, no. 1) Type: essay
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Fundamental Thought in Art
Merleau-Ponty's term for the implicit ontological inquiry carried by literature, painting, and music — a genuine philosophical content that is not translated philosophy but a disclosure of new relationships to Being that official philosoph…
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Großer Stil
Nietzsche's name, in his late writings, for the highest mode of artistic creation: not classicism, not romanticism, but mastery over a chaos that is one's own. Heidegger reads großer Stil in Nietzsche I I.14-15 as the form-giving counter-s…
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Making Visible (Sichtbarmachen)
Paul Klee's 1920 formula from the Schöpferische Konfession (Creative Credo) — "Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible" ("Die Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar") — transformed by Merleau-Pon…
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Marionette
The marionette is the figure where BS-I stages the undecidable threshold among mechanism, animal, human, and sovereign. "There are marionette and marionette" — the seminar's opening of S7 (p. 187). Derrida triangulates three "arts of the m…
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Museum Without Walls
Malraux's coinage (le musée imaginaire, 1947) for the virtual universal collection that photographic reproduction has produced. The English title of Stuart Gilbert's translation of Les Voix du silence (1953) gives the phrase its anglophone…
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Nietzsche I
Author(s): Martin Heidegger Year: 1961 (lectures: 1936/37, 1937, 1939; Vorwort: May 1961) Type: Lecture course (three courses; published Neske 1961, GA 6.1 ed. Brigitte Schillbach 1996)
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Paul Gauguin
French post-impressionist painter (1848–1903). Central subject of Carbone's Flesh of Images ch. 2 ("It Takes a Long Time to Become Wild"). Although Merleau-Ponty himself never focused philosophical attention on Gauguin, Carbone argues that…
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Play (Spiel)
Play (Spiel) is Gadamer's "clue to ontological explanation" in Part One of Truth and Method: the concept through which he determines the mode of being of the work of art. Stripped of the subjective meaning it carries in Kant and Schiller (…
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Sense and Non-Sense
Author(s): Maurice Merleau-Ponty Year: 1948 (French original); 1964 (English translation) Type: book (collection of essays, 13 chapters + author's Preface + Translators' Introduction)
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Strong Beauty
Strong beauty is an event, not a quality — a radically unanticipable apparitional moment characterized by opacity, imprevisibility, and an intensity akin to pain. The concept, developed by Galen A. Johnson and Veronique Foti drawing on Mer…
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The Voices of Silence
Author(s): André Malraux (1901–1976) Year: 1953 (English) / 1951 (French Les Voix du silence) Type: book