Man's Rage for Chaos  -  Morse Peckham

Biology, Behavior, and the Arts

KORTE INHOUD

Cultural criticism has been too obsessed with the rage for order to be able to grasp the import of Peckham's search for "some human activity, which serves to break up orientations, to weaken and frustrate the tyrannous drive to order, to prepare the individual to observe what the orientation tells him is irrelevant, but what may every be relevant." The techniques of poetry, music, painting, and architecture are carefully and lucidly analyzed to demonstrate how precisely those techniques violate the profound...
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1980 Uitgever: Schocken Books 339 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0805201424 ISBN-13: 9780805201420