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Profundity : a universal value, Jean Gabbert Harrell

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The crisis or "death" of philosophy currently identified both within and outside professional circles is commonly attributed to the failure to find universals in metaphysics, epistemology, and, most obviously, in valuational judgment. Profundity concentrates on an assumption uniformly upheld in the theory of value, that all human values are contextually dependent. Harrell contends, to the contrary, that there exists one major value that is universal to humans, regardless of context. That value is profundity, or depth. Considering how "profundity" is used in our language leads Harrell to identify two fundamental sensory patterns that are common to all human life at its origin - an auditory pattern that is first experienced before birth and a visual one that is experienced immediately after birth. From analysis of these patterns as they recur in music and the visual arts, Harrell moves on to discuss their related manifestations in religious doctrine, ceremony, and experience and also in works of literature. Overall her theory entails a radical revamping of the concept of creativity, since no artist can create profundity as a universal value, and provides the first full-scale treatment of profundity in the history of Western philosophy
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eng
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Profundity : a universal value
Title
Profundity
Title remainder
a universal value
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Jean Gabbert Harrell
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Subject
Language
eng
Summary
The crisis or "death" of philosophy currently identified both within and outside professional circles is commonly attributed to the failure to find universals in metaphysics, epistemology, and, most obviously, in valuational judgment. Profundity concentrates on an assumption uniformly upheld in the theory of value, that all human values are contextually dependent. Harrell contends, to the contrary, that there exists one major value that is universal to humans, regardless of context. That value is profundity, or depth. Considering how "profundity" is used in our language leads Harrell to identify two fundamental sensory patterns that are common to all human life at its origin - an auditory pattern that is first experienced before birth and a visual one that is experienced immediately after birth. From analysis of these patterns as they recur in music and the visual arts, Harrell moves on to discuss their related manifestations in religious doctrine, ceremony, and experience and also in works of literature. Overall her theory entails a radical revamping of the concept of creativity, since no artist can create profundity as a universal value, and provides the first full-scale treatment of profundity in the history of Western philosophy
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1921-2011
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Harrell, Jean G.
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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
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index present
LC call number
BH301.D46
LC item number
H37 1992
Literary form
non fiction
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  • Aesthetics
  • Depth (Philosophy)
  • Aesthetics
  • Depth (Philosophy)
  • Ästhetik
  • Grundwerte
  • Ethik
  • Lebensqualität
  • Wertphilosophie
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Profundity : a universal value, Jean Gabbert Harrell
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Dimensions
24 cm
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xii, 195 pages
Isbn
9780271008493
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(alk. paper)
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91041518
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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  • n
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  • (OCoLC)24796383
  • (OCoLC)ocm24796383
Label
Profundity : a universal value, Jean Gabbert Harrell
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xii, 195 pages
Isbn
9780271008493
Isbn Type
(alk. paper)
Lccn
91041518
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)24796383
  • (OCoLC)ocm24796383

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