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The Religion of Reality: Inquiry into the Self, Art, And Transcendence
Didier Maleuvre

Catholic University of America Press, 2006

"Once Gods walked among humans, but, friends, we have come too late! The Gods are . . . up there in another world." Thus the poet Hölderlin evoked the godlessness in modern life, which, ruled by reason and science, has chased transcendence out of our understanding. Yet is it true that we moderns walk without gods? The Religion of Reality takes to task this common assumption according to which the modern intellect is devoid of appeal to the ...

Museum Memories: History, Technology, Art (Cultural Memory in the Present)

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Didier Maleuvre

Stanford University Press, 1999

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To be honest: several times I felt envy reading this book. Maleuvre analysis the beginning of a museum-culture in the 18th and 19th century and does this with an extraordinary knowledge of philosophy, art and literature, especially French literature. His question of departure is: In what social context surges the museum and what impact has its birth to the relation between subject and object, ...