Tag Archives: Rousseau

“Trembley” Life – Text and Sensibility

Posted on July 18, 2011 by

Rembrandt van Rijn The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632) The Hague, Netherlands After Descartes, we see in Western learning a new emphasis placed on the investigation of the composition and workings, as well as the repair and augmentation, … Continue reading →

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Culture as Disfiguration – Against Rousseau

Posted on July 14, 2011 by

Grebo Mask Côte d’Ivoire Pablo Picasso Guitar (1914) Museum of Modern Art, New York It is possible, that there are literary qualities in the fiction of high modernist Joseph Conrad, in particular the very famous novella “Heart of Darkness”, which … Continue reading →

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The Myth of Self-Discovery, Self-Improvement and Self-Expression: Finger Painting, Auto-Mutilation, and the Birth of the Signature

Posted on April 6, 2011 by

Claude Levi-Strauss was well known as a cultural structuralist anthropologist. But what about physical structuralist anthropology? That was a field of research explored and expanded by Andre Leroi-Gourhan, an anthropologist held in very high esteem in France, though his name … Continue reading →

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