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Shadows of being : four philosophical essays /
This book is a study of the phenomena of shadows, meant in a broader sense as ""symbolic forms"". The shadow is a less real, ""surface"" replica of some more real form. From the Platonic point of view, empirical objects are ""shadows of ideas"&q...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter One; 1.1 Metaphysical essence of shadow, Platonism; 1.2 The Sun and shadows in Ancient Egypt; 1.3 From Homeric to Orphic shadows; Chapter Two; 2.1 Lights as shadows of the divine gloom; 2.2 Dante's hierophany of shadows; 2.3 Leonardo's meta-physical umbrology; 2.4 The science of shadows and "shadowy rays"; 2.5 The unfortunate man with no shadow; Chapter Three; 3.1 Galileo's discovery of the shadows on the Moon; 3.2 Mutual "reflection" of two worlds; 3.3 Quantum shadows of other universes
- 3.4 Three shadow worlds of modern art3.4.1 Marcel Duchamp; 3.4.2 Giorgio de Chirico; 3.4.3 Andy Warhol; 3.5 Over-lit virtual shadows and-In Praise of Shadow; Chapter Four; 4.1 Cyber-optimism and its turn; 4.2 A "perfect crime" with a flaw; 4.3 Is the "Singularity" near?; 4.4 Virtual eschatology and immortality; 4.5 Online transcendence in Second Life; 4.6 New religious rituals as "transmedia" games; 4.7 The human odyssey and the rise of superintelligence; 4.8 Controlling ... or switching off?; 4.9 Shadows of minds; 4.10 Plato's Allegory of the Cave revisited; Bibliography; Index of Names