Metamorphoses of the Absolute
1st Edition
Published on 10. January 2019
339 pages
978-1-5275-2484-2 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays is devoted to the diversity of the conceptual and terminological definitions of the notion of the "e,absolute"e,. Absolute comprises both the concepts of the Western world related to God and the verbal constructions flowing from these ideas in the spheres of law, philosophy, linguistics, politics, medicine, literature, and arts. Over time, absolute and its neologisms have undergone various modifications, assuming the associated characteristics of syntactic ambiguity and inflation. Absolute can imply an increase in the degree of a quality attached to some object or phenomenon and can be used as either an adverbial modifier or a proper noun. In its appearances as a procedural term, absolute mostly conveys a negative connotation when evaluating some action. The question posed in this book is not what absolute is, but what possibilities exist with regard to perceiving and conceptualizing it in human terms, both historically and in the present.
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Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Philosophy and Semiotics in Search of the Absolute
- Semiotic Paradoxes of the Absolute
- Imagining the Absolute
- Are Moral Principles Absolutely Relative or Relatively Absolute?
- G.W. F. Hegel's Understanding of the Absolute
- Part II: The Absolute as an Entity
- The Transcendental Self in Search of the Absolute
- Is Identity an Absolute Entity?
- Absolute Human
- Understanding the Term Absolute and its Collocations in the Theory of Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
- Part III: Life in Words
- The Absolute Notion of "God" and Its Conceptual Mapping in the History of War Rhetoric
- Language Evolution
- Observing the "Identity" of the Absolute within the Framework of Human Existence
- Disiecti membra poetae
- Part IV: The Absolute in Visual Arts
- Wholophilia
- Absolute Art as a Guise
- Mocking the Absolute? The Copenhagen Cartoon Crisis
- The Absolute Properties of the Cinematic Image
- Contributors
