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Is Truth Primitive?
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Jeremy Wyatt
The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 73, Issue 4, October 2023, Pages 1281–1304, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqac073
Published: 17 November 2022
...Jeremy Wyatt truth primitivism deflationism concepts circular definitions Jamin Asay Gottlob Frege We can unpack these theses in order to get a sense of how they are meant to hang together. Asay thinks of our concepts as being ordered in a hierarchical dependence structure. Concepts...
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Surrealizing Wifredo Lam? Open Access
Elza Adamowicz
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2022, Pages 106–119, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqac008
Published: 20 April 2022
.... Surréalisme et primitivisme littéraire (Paris: L’Harmattan, 1996), p. 274. 37 Lowery Stokes Sims, Wifredo Lam and the International Avantgarde, 1923–1982 (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2002), p. 105. 38 Charles Théophile, ‘Wifredo Lam: Peintures et dessins,’ Marianne (July 12...
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National and Racial Aesthetics
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Peter Childs
Published: 27 October 2020
...This chapter examines the travels of D. H. Lawrence, particularly to Italy and Mexico, alongside his interest in ‘Primitivism’ and the idea of a ‘Spirit of Place’. The discussion considers Lawrence’s perceptions of national and racial variances resting on a set of attributes he describes as playing...
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Dance
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Susan Jones
Published: 27 October 2020
... Romanticism Bible Bloomsbury Group Diaghilev Sergei Garnett David London Mexico Morrell Ottoline Nijinsky Vaslav Pavlova Anna Bakst Léon Garnett Edward Mordkin Mikhail Serov Alexandr Cocteau Jean Eliot T S Jeschke Claudia Primitivism ethnography Roerich Nicholas Stravinsky Igor Adorno...
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Kripke’s Wittgenstein’s Sceptical Argument
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Alexander Miller
Published: 19 July 2024
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Nanette O’Brien
Published: 08 February 2024
... for the discussion of civilization. Social norms across history shape this discussion. Modernists exploring the boundaries of the body also have reflected on the aesthetic movement of modernist primitivism, which derives from ideas about accessing an authentic, liberated self, parallel with the state of so-called...
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Purity and Parallels: Constructing the Apostasy Narrative of Early Christianity
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Taylor G. Petrey
Published: 15 May 2014
... Peter The Shepherd of Hermas Davies Douglas apostolic church Christian primitivism hybridity apostle apologetics orthodoxy Adolf von Harnack hermeneutics identity In one of the earliest surviving texts from early Christianity, Paul warns the Galatians: “I am astonished that you...
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Powers at Work
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George Molnar
Published: 30 November 2006
... truth is a form of modal primitivism. It also contends that necessity is central to science and common sense, so someone is sure to try and make a philosophical living out of inverting this obvious truth. So far in this part of this chapter, I have argued that the major types...
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Explaining Continuity and Change
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Madeleine Pennington
Published: 04 March 2021
... Eucharist Eucharistic theology Trinity Trinitarianism Act of Uniformity 1662 America Catholicism Enlightenment the Holland James II Calvin John Jones Rufus justification sanctification sin Leslie Charles Early Church primitivism unity church unity Reformation the respectability orthodoxy...
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Crossing the threshold
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Tony Fisher
Published: 13 June 2023
... opening is made onto the space of racialised alterity, via ‘primitivism’ in art. Primitivism is analysed as a radical aesthetic attitude that contests the space of the aesthetic exception by crossing the threshold of what art excludes as art. The essay traces the roots of primitivism through...
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Introduction: Savage Jews
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Samuel J. Spinner
Published: 27 July 2021
...The Introduction surveys the languages, media, and politics of Jewish primitivism and defines it in relation to modernist primitivism more broadly. Jewish primitivism redirected toward the self the dominant European primitivism that valorized racial and ethnic difference. Further, while typical...
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The Sonic Color Line Belts the World: Constructing Race and Music in Central Europe
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Kira Thurman
Published: 15 October 2021
... markets of cultural exchanges. German music criticism, then, reveals the difficulties white Germans faced in coming to terms with the complexities of the Black diaspora in their performances. The caricature of the popular Black entertainer also functioned to reinforce white beliefs of Black primitivism...
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Introduction
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Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen
Published: 09 November 2021
... emotion Édouard Manet Aby Warburg frontality primitivism In Paris in the spring of 1886, at the eighth and final Impressionist exhibition, the twenty-seven-year-old painter Georges Seurat debuted a peculiar composition (fig. 1 ). On a large, seven-by-ten-foot canvas, he presented a throng of his...
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Published: 06 December 2022
... primitivism tradition s purification whiteness avant garde Burgess Gelett Derain Andre Ethnographic Museum of the Trocadéro fetish United States African sculpture Brancusi Constantin gallery 291 Guillaume Paul World War I Zayas Marius de Coady Robert Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC Kuba...
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The migrant as catalyst: Winold Reiss and the Harlem Renaissance
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Christian Kravagna
Published: 11 October 2022
... of a community struggling for dignified representations of Blackness. African American modernism Douglas Aaron Harlem Renaissance Hoch Hannah Klee Paul Macke August migration New Negro movement Nolde Emil orientalism Pechstein Max primitivism Reiss Winold South Seas colonialism Enlightenment...
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Published: 05 March 2020
... pastoral primitivism supernatural chivalric Although this essay aims to outline Disney’s main musical medievalisms, along the way I will argue for the company’s role as one of society’s main purveyors of medievalism, as embodied in the ubiquitous Disney Company icon, Sleeping Beauty Castle...
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Body Modification
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Ross Farnell
Published: 02 October 2014
...This chapter discusses the growing interest in and practices of body modification—both common and extreme—since the rise of “modern primitivism” in the 1980s. Viewed variously as a reclamation of identity and a rejection of Western social biases, invariably modification practices foreground...
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Reimagining Radical Environmentalism
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Emily Ray and Sean Parson
Published: 07 March 2016
...Since the 1970s, three major philosophic perspectives have shaped radical environmental thought: spiritual ecologies, which are best illustrated by deep ecology; humanist ecologies, such as social ecology and eco-Marxism; and luddite ecologies, such as primitivism. On the ground, activism has often...
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Picturing a Crude Past: Primitivism, Public Art, and Corporate Oil Promotion in the United States
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Ross Barrett
Published: 15 October 2014
... of a promotional discourse (petro-primitivism) that would inform much twentieth-century oil boosterism. The Drake Memorial, located in Titusville, Pennsylvania, was conceived as a symbolic response to the period’s intensifying concerns about the sustainability and social effects of oil capitalism. This chapter...
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Asceticism and the Primitive Hut
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Kazi K. Ashraf
Published: 31 October 2013
...This chapter examines the relationship between asceticism and the primitive hut. The terms “primitive” and “primitivism” are highly protean ideas and not reducible to any single condition. The primitive suggests the notion of the savage, the barbarian, the first, the underdeveloped, the “natural...
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