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divine philosophy Reference library
Jane O'Grady
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
...philosophy How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. ( Milton , Comus , lines 475–9) Milton's Comus , a masque in which Comus , son of Circe and Bacchus , tries to seduce the innocent Lady, was mainly a debate on the importance of virginity. The little speech above follows a far-from-charming diatribe against ‘carnal sensuality’, said to clot the soul with contagion in this life and draw it to...
Zinzendorf, Nikolaus Ludwig von (1700–60) Reference library
The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers
...encouraged ‘love between all brothers and children of God in all religions’ (i.e. denominations). Led by Zinzendorf, who was able to achieve a degree of spiritual autonomy for the group, with offices held by laymen, within the framework of the Lutheran state Church, a religious form of life developed, characterized by extraordinary vitality. This found expression in a mode of spirituality that included the washing of feet, love-feasts, meetings of singing, a decision-making process involving the casting of lots, daily watchwords (‘Losungen’), and counselling...
Utopia Reference library
Sean Cubitt
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2 ed.)
...before the Lenten season of fasting in the Catholic Church. Such carnivals, he argued, involved not only feasting and sexual license but also violence and traditions, like the election of a King of the Fools in parody of the structures of power. This sense of carnival as an integral element of rebellion, and vice versa, were also developed by historians, including Peter Burke, Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie, and Christopher Hill, whose work on early modern Europe and on the English Revolution highlighted the utopian dimensions of cultural expressions, including...
Irony Reference library
John Vignaux Smyth and Reginald McGinnis
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2 ed.)
...philosophy of language and concern with the performative effects of “the double-voiced word” resulted in a theory of novelistic “heteroglossia” and carnival that indirectly echoed both Schlegel’s collapse of genre in the roman and Kierkegaard’s comments on the ironic significance of the inversions of carnival—the Feast of the Ass, the Feast of Fools, Easter humor, and so on. The German novelist Thomas Mann stands out as providing perhaps the most extensive treatment of the term itself in modern fiction, a treatment whose elaboration of Romantic and...
Chinese Aesthetics Reference library
Haun Saussy, Susan H. Bush, and Ban Wang
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2 ed.)
...ritual as their reference and end value and music as their leading model: “The way of music and the way of governing are one.” “When the Eight Sounds harmonize, men and Spirits rejoice” ( Li ji [Records of Ritual], ca . 200 bce ). Musical performance was, of course, only one element in a complex of ritual activities including tribute, hunting, investitures, communal feasting, archery demonstrations, weddings, funerals, and ancestral sacrifice; but the theory of music possessed a formal language appropriate for elucidating the patterns common to all...
Irony Reference library
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
...philosophy of language and concern with the performative effects of “the double-voiced word” resulted in a theory of novelistic “heteroglossia” and carnival that indirectly echoed both Schlegel's collapse of genre in the roman and Kierkegaard's comments on the ironic significance of the inversions of carnival—the Feast of the Ass, the Feast of Fools, Easter humor, and so on. The German novelist Thomas Mann stands out as providing perhaps the most extensive treatment of the term itself in modern fiction, a treatment whose elaboration of Romantic and...
Chinese Aesthetics Reference library
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
...courtly ritual as their reference and end value, and music as their leading model. “The way of music and the way of governing are one.” “When the Eight Sounds harmonize, men and Spirits rejoice” ( Li ji [Records of Ritual], c. 200 bce ). Musical performance was, of course, only one element in a complex of ritual activities including tribute, hunting, investitures, communal feasting, archery demonstrations, weddings, funerals, and ancestral sacrifice; but the theory of music possessed a formal language apt to elucidate the patterns common to all these...
