Tag: Apotheosis

Free Download William H. F. Altman, "Descriptioninus the Master and the Apotheosis of Imperial Platonism"
English | ISBN: 1666944394 | 2024 | 472 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Unlike other recent studies, Descriptioninus the Master and the Apotheosis of Imperial Platonism is critical of Descriptioninus, and in particular of his version of Platonism, here described as "Imperial." It is in contrast with Plato-a teacher whose dialogues challenge his students to think for themselves-that William H. F. Altman presents Descriptioninus as a master, who uses a seductive form of rhetoric throughout the Enneads to persuade his disciples to ignore his self-contradictions and decontextualized quotations from Plato while instead regarding his spiritual experiences, combined with a gift for the creative synthesis of previous thinkers, as the principal basis of their faithful and uncritical allegiance. While setting Descriptioninus in the context of the Roman Empire and his own critique of the Gnostics, this book grapples throughout with his current and virtually uncritical reception.

Free Download Stephen Theron, "Hegel’s Apotheosis of Logic"
English | ISBN: 1443816841 | 2017 | 330 pages | PDF | 1275 KB
This book presents what Hegel calls the vital spirit of the actual world, the truth, namely, of logics form and content as one concrete whole. Axiomatic here is that thinking is necessarily free and unbounded, if we could escape a performative contradiction in evaluating it. Thinking is absolute, what Hegel calls spirit or mind, Geist. He identifies three forms of absolute spirit, namely art, religion and philosophy, where each form is absorbed into the next one; philosophy subsumes religion and religion subsumes art, in a process seeking and achieving the absolute. Philosophy, therefore, is ultimately theology as fulfilling the latter in minds constitutive self-transcendence towards the absolute idea, itself the absolute, Hegel asserts. This is absolute idealism, where the Idea is true being and finite things are transitory notions. This book aims to clarify such conceptions, whereby theological transcendent grace is natural or all in all, faith is absolute knowledge in germ, things are the opposite of what they immediately seem, while achieved self-consciousness is the ruin of the individual abstractly parted from its objects. Thus external nature is internal, the whole in or one with the part, necessity absolute freedom, these being stages of Logic. Hegel needs a second, related trio to the above three forms. This is logic, nature and mind, likewise, in ceaseless process, a returning upon self. Thus arts foundational quality mirrors that of the logical art. The individual art-object, art as striving for absolute perfection, founds spirits trajectory. Hence, consciousness first appears individual only as set towards universal self-consciousness in absolute knowing.

Free Download Ricardo Averbach Miami University, "Villa-Lobos and Modernism: The Apotheosis of Cannibal Music"
English | ISBN: 1666911356 | 2022 | 392 pages | EPUB, PDF | 9 MB + 8 MB
Villa-Lobos and Modernism: The Apotheosis of Cannibal Music provides a new assessment of the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos in terms of his contributions to the Modernist Movement of the twentieth century. In this profound study, Ricardo Averbach elevates Cultural Cannibalism as a major manifestation of the Modernist aesthetics and Villa-Lobos as its top exponent in the music field. Villa-Lobos’s anthropophagic appetite for multiple opposing aesthetics enlightens through the juxtaposition of contradictory elements, leaving a legacy of unmatched originality, a glittering kaleidoscope of sounds that draw from the radical power of Josephine Baker to the outrageous extravagance of Carmen Miranda, from Dada to Einstein’s counterintuitive scientific findings, from folklorism to atonality. The constructed analyses use the works of Stravinsky as a familiar and popular touchstone for accessing Villa-Lobos as the leading exponent of an aesthetic movement that has been neglected due to a traditional Eurocentric view of Modernism. Averbach opens up new possibilities for the study of twentieth-century music, in general, while unveiling how much our present aesthetics owes to the Modernist ideas introduced by the Brazilian composer.