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1 online resource (x, 189 pages) : illustrations |
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Intro; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter One; 1.1 Metaphysical essence of shadow, Platonism; 1.2 The Sun and shadows in Ancient Egypt; 1.3 From Homeric to Orphic shadows; Chapter Two; 2.1 Lights as shadows of the divine gloom; 2.2 Dante's hierophany of shadows; 2.3 Leonardo's meta-physical umbrology; 2.4 The science of shadows and "shadowy rays"; 2.5 The unfortunate man with no shadow; Chapter Three; 3.1 Galileo's discovery of the shadows on the Moon; 3.2 Mutual "reflection" of two worlds; 3.3 Quantum shadows of other universes |
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3.4 Three shadow worlds of modern art3.4.1 Marcel Duchamp; 3.4.2 Giorgio de Chirico; 3.4.3 Andy Warhol; 3.5 Over-lit virtual shadows and-In Praise of Shadow; Chapter Four; 4.1 Cyber-optimism and its turn; 4.2 A "perfect crime" with a flaw; 4.3 Is the "Singularity" near?; 4.4 Virtual eschatology and immortality; 4.5 Online transcendence in Second Life; 4.6 New religious rituals as "transmedia" games; 4.7 The human odyssey and the rise of superintelligence; 4.8 Controlling ... or switching off?; 4.9 Shadows of minds; 4.10 Plato's Allegory of the Cave revisited; Bibliography; Index of Names |
| Summary |
This book is a study of the phenomena of shadows, meant in a broader sense as ""symbolic forms"". The shadow is a less real, ""surface"" replica of some more real form. From the Platonic point of view, empirical objects are ""shadows of ideas"", while from the modern ""natural"" point of view, shadows are seen and conceived primarily as ""weaker"" replicas of bodies, which give evidence of their material reality. In the first three essays here, several topics from the Ancient Egypt and Greece to modern arts and sciences are considered, while in the fourth essay, the contemporary virtual realit |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Ontology.
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Shades and shadows -- Philosophy
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Shades and shadows in art.
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Shades and shadows in literature.
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ontology (metaphysics)
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ART -- General.
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Shades and shadows in literature
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Shades and shadows in art
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Ontology
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Art and philosophy
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Shades and shadows
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781527525658 |
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1527525651 |
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