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Primitivism Now, Primitivism Again: Introduction
Comparative LiteratureAbstract This essay revisits critical issues in the scholarship on primitivism in the light of recent theoretical and historical developments. Particularly, it considers whether the expansion of primitivism studies to take in a range of contexts and cultures beyond the western European and North American ones with which it has so long ...
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2022
Abstract The moderns are united in thinking that the laws of nature cannot execute themselves. If laws are not merely descriptions of general metaphysical principles flowing from powers and Aristotelian natures, then they need to be enforced by a divine agent. This chapter looks at a contemporary top-down view that tries to dispense with
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Abstract The moderns are united in thinking that the laws of nature cannot execute themselves. If laws are not merely descriptions of general metaphysical principles flowing from powers and Aristotelian natures, then they need to be enforced by a divine agent. This chapter looks at a contemporary top-down view that tries to dispense with
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Semantic Primitivism and Normativity
Ratio, 2001Kripke‐Wittgenstein meaning scepticism appears as a serious threat to the idea that there could be meaning‐constituting facts. Some people argue that the only viable response is to adopt semantic primitivism (SP). SP is the doctrine that meaning‐facts are sui generis and irreducibly semantic.
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Erkenntnis, 2007
The typical kind of color realism is reductive: the color properties are identified with properties specified in other terms (as ways of altering light, for instance). If no reductive analysis is available – if the colors are primitive sui generis properties – this is often taken to be a convincing argument for eliminativism.
Alex Byrne, David R. Hilbert
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The typical kind of color realism is reductive: the color properties are identified with properties specified in other terms (as ways of altering light, for instance). If no reductive analysis is available – if the colors are primitive sui generis properties – this is often taken to be a convincing argument for eliminativism.
Alex Byrne, David R. Hilbert
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This chapter analyzes how Agnaldo Manuel dos Santos (Mar Grande, 1926—Salvador, 1962) consciously created his works from visual references and artistic ideas to which he gained access through the mediation of several agents in the Brazilian art world in Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo, between the late 1940s and early 1960s.
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2018
Primitivism in modern art designates a range of practices and accompanying modes of thought that span the period from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century and cut across manifold artistic styles and groups. This entry presents instances of Primitivism from this period that are representative of its features.
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Primitivism in modern art designates a range of practices and accompanying modes of thought that span the period from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century and cut across manifold artistic styles and groups. This entry presents instances of Primitivism from this period that are representative of its features.
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Tutuola in the Bush of Primitivism
Comparative LiteratureAbstract This article situates the early novels of Amos Tutuola—The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954)—in relation to literary primitivism. The first part outlines the initial misconstrual of Tutuola in the United Kingdom and United States as a “true primitive,” capable of producing authentically what ...
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2017
This chapter examines the aesthetically and conceptually central role of music in the film work of Len Lye. Lye’s first film, Tusalava, exhibits a strong concern with notions of the “primitive”, both visually and musically. While Lye abandoned that film’s African and South Pacific influences in his work of the 1930s, his use of jazz is here understood ...
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This chapter examines the aesthetically and conceptually central role of music in the film work of Len Lye. Lye’s first film, Tusalava, exhibits a strong concern with notions of the “primitive”, both visually and musically. While Lye abandoned that film’s African and South Pacific influences in his work of the 1930s, his use of jazz is here understood ...
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2016
Abstract Historians most often use the term primitivism to refer to the attempt to reconstruct a religious tradition’s original theology, structure, or beliefs. Primitivists believe that the earliest expressions of the faith are the most efficacious, powerful, and valid, and hence they attempt to recapture them in as complete a form ...
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Abstract Historians most often use the term primitivism to refer to the attempt to reconstruct a religious tradition’s original theology, structure, or beliefs. Primitivists believe that the earliest expressions of the faith are the most efficacious, powerful, and valid, and hence they attempt to recapture them in as complete a form ...
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