Contextual Authority and Aesthetic Truth

Contextual Authority and Aesthetic TruthThis book explores the relationship between authority and context and attempts to establish the ways in which authority is a function of a particular agent or set of agents, and the degree to which it is a product of a context rather than an agent. The work is not a sociological or psychological study but rather a literary philosophical speculation into the roots of our conceptions of authority. It declares all authority to be aesthetic in nature and

giving an unprecedented account of the city’s cultural evolution

an inverse correspondence that implies a belief that the demonic realm is maintained by imitating divine reality

as claimed by Gershom Scholem

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presents new research on wall decoration in the Theban necropolis

one based not on Qu Yuan hagiography but on what late Warring States period artifacts and texts

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Pioneering essays that reveal the significance of new interdisciplinary understandings of trees and forests

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using the motions of the Sun/stars together with accurate time pieces

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