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For a Syncretism of the Faculties of the Mind: Art as a Means of Knowledge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Pierre Dehaye
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Since his beginnings, Man has produced art: gests and works in some way bound to the essence of man's existence, gests and works grafted onto the epidermis of the world, yet gests and works for transcending the immediate givens, for understanding veiled realities and future possibilities: gests and works of global apprehension, brought about and nourished through the ages by elementary needs, by visceral fears, by existential hopes.

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Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 32 , Issue 128 , December 1984 , pp. 42 - 53
Copyright
Copyright © 1984 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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References

1 Jean Guitton, of the French Academy, Le temps d'une vie, Retz Centurion, 1980.

2 Quentin Ritwen (Pierre Debray-Ritzen), Les nervures de l'être, Lausanne, Rencontre, 1967.

3 La vulgarisation scientifique, by André Guinier, delegate of the Academy of Sciences, annual public session of the five Academies (1978).