Aspects of Silence
Reflections on the Uses of Ancient Thought in the Modern World
Description:... Ancient philosophers in both the East and the West attempted to identify the factors that unify our conception of the world without resort to the dualism introduced by Socrates and Plato. This impulse, largely suppressed in the West with the advent of the Christian era, continued to appear in the writings and activities of a variety of individuals over the centuries that followed. By the end of the nineteenth century, Platonic dualism came to be challenged openly in the wake of new science and changes in cultural attitudes. The re-emergence of a process model of reality and the conception of a unitary world is nowhere more evident than in the work of certain artists active since the middle of the twentieth century. This book traces that arc.
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