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In today's European arts and sciences most of the time we see not only other, but also our own cultural traditions and the different forms of modernity like a dim image in a mirror. The question this book addresses is whether it is possible to get an almost face-to-face intimacy with various forms of cultural tradition and modernity by using our experiences and our powers of imagination, i.e. our expectations, in a more fruitful way.

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Through a Glass, Darkly: An Introductory Essay, Wil Arts Beyond Melancholy and Before Utopia: Plea for a Boring World, Wolf Lepenies Experience and Expectations of the East, Jack Goody Global Expectations, Local Experiences. Non-Western Modernities, Nilüfer Göle The Visual Arts Today. Experiences and Expectations, Hans Belting Old Virtues and Vices as Icons of a New Morality, Harry Peeters Pursuing the Spirit of the Laws: An Epilogue, Willem Witteveen

Through a Glass, Darkly: Blurred Images of Cultural Tradition and Modernity over Distance and Time

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      Publisher: Brill
      Publication Date: 12/01/2000
      ISBN13: 9789004115972, 978-9004115972
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      Cultural studies Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In today's European arts and sciences most of the time we see not only other, but also our own cultural traditions and the different forms of modernity like a dim image in a mirror. The question this book addresses is whether it is possible to get an almost face-to-face intimacy with various forms of cultural tradition and modernity by using our experiences and our powers of imagination, i.e. our expectations, in a more fruitful way.

      Table of Contents
      Through a Glass, Darkly: An Introductory Essay, Wil Arts Beyond Melancholy and Before Utopia: Plea for a Boring World, Wolf Lepenies Experience and Expectations of the East, Jack Goody Global Expectations, Local Experiences. Non-Western Modernities, Nilüfer Göle The Visual Arts Today. Experiences and Expectations, Hans Belting Old Virtues and Vices as Icons of a New Morality, Harry Peeters Pursuing the Spirit of the Laws: An Epilogue, Willem Witteveen

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