Metamorphoses of the absolute / edited by Daina Teters and Otto Neumaier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Teters, Daina, editor.

Neumaier, Otto, editor.

Series:

MetaMind Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Absolute, The.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 333 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

This collection of essays is devoted to the diversity of the conceptual and terminological definitions of the notion of the "absolute". Absolute comprises both the concepts of the Western world related to God and the verbal constructions flowing from these ideas in the spheres of law, philosophy, linguistics, politics, medicine, literature, and arts. Over time, absolute and its neologisms have undergone various modifications, assuming the associated characteristics of syntactic ambiguity and inflation. Absolute can imply an increase in the degree of a quality attached to some object or phenomenon and can be used as either an adverbial modifier or a proper noun. In its appearances as a procedural term, absolute mostly conveys a negative connotation when evaluating some action. The question posed in this book is not what absolute is, but what possibilities exist with regard to perceiving and conceptualizing it in human terms, both historically and in the present.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Philosophy and Semiotics in Search of the Absolute

Semiotic Paradoxes of the Absolute

Imagining the Absolute

Are Moral Principles Absolutely Relative or Relatively Absolute?

G.W. F. Hegel's Understanding of the Absolute

Part II: The Absolute as an Entity

The Transcendental Self in Search of the Absolute

Is Identity an Absolute Entity?

Absolute Human

Understanding the Term Absolute and its Collocations in the Theory of Human Action by Ludwig von Mises

Part III: Life in Words

The Absolute Notion of "God" and Its Conceptual Mapping in the History of War Rhetoric

Language Evolution

Observing the "Identity" of the Absolute within the Framework of Human Existence

Disiecti membra poetae

Part IV: The Absolute in Visual Arts

Wholophilia

Absolute Art as a Guise

Mocking the Absolute? The Copenhagen Cartoon Crisis

The Absolute Properties of the Cinematic Image

Contributors.

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ISBN:

1-5275-2484-1

OCLC:

1083036492