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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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Anthropologisme
Per Saint Aubert (2006 Ch I §2), Merleau-Ponty's anthropologisme is not the same as anthropologie. It is the negative humanism of the humanisme criticiste — Brunschvicg's "humanisme radical où tout est construit et tout est donné" — extend…
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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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The Voices of Silence
Author(s): André Malraux (1901–1976) Year: 1953 (English) / 1951 (French Les Voix du silence) Type: book
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True Humanism (Merleau-Ponty)
MP's "true humanism" / "humanisme réel" / "vrai humanisme" names a humanism without an a priori human substratum: humanity cannot be conceived prior to the practices of communication and communion. The locus classicus is the "Note on Machi…