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In the late 19th century in northern Spain and southern France prehistoric mural paintings and engravings were discovered. Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge inquires into epistemic questions related to images, depicting and perception that this rich and much debated material has given rise to. Focusing respectively on the historical and scientific circumstances and controversies and on the epistemic and perceptual problems and questions the discovery of these paintings and engravings gave rise to, the book traces the outline of the doxa of cave art studies. It criticizes the different ways of trying to make sense of the cave art. Furthermore it suggests, with the help of both Cornelius Castoriadis's concept of technique and Ernst Cassirer's notion of symbolic form, a yet untried way out of the hermeneutical impasse where the interpretation of the paleolithic pictures finds itself today.
| List of Illustrations | p. ix |
| Acknowledgements | p. x |
| Outside | p. 1 |
| How it is done - a reader's guide | p. 7 |
| Cave Opening | p. 9 |
| Some Platonic qualms: the mimetic curse in cave-art studies | p. 9 |
| On texts and images | p. 12 |
| Text | p. 13 |
| Images | p. 14 |
| Doxa | p. 19 |
| Specifying doxa I - Protagoras | p. 19 |
| Doxa - a first approximation | p. 25 |
| Specifying doxa II - Bourdieu | p. 26 |
| Caves | p. 32 |
| The beginnings of a discipline | p. 32 |
| Cave 'art'? | p. 33 |
| The creation of cave art - Altamira and onwards | p. 41 |
| Seeing what is there | p. 44 |
| Doxa | p. 48 |
| Specifying doxa III - the epistemology of Ludwick Fleck | p. 48 |
| Thought style, active and passive connections | p. 50 |
| Thought collective | p. 54 |
| Truth and facts | p. 56 |
| Facts | p. 58 |
| Fleck's topicality | p. 61 |
| Seeing what there is - bodily conditions | p. 63 |
| The relevance of antique perceptual theory | p. 68 |
| The degree zero of perception - the relevance of contemporary cognitive science | p. 71 |
| Caves | p. 81 |
| The validity of interpretations | p. 81 |
| Art for art's sake | p. 83 |
| The uncanny modernity of cave art | p. 83 |
| Hunting magic and totemism | p. 87 |
| Structured messages - art as language | p. 88 |
| Art as reports of shamans | p. 92 |
| What it could mean to validate an interpretation | p. 96 |
| The criteria, doxologically seen | p. 97 |
| The doxa of cave-art studies, a compressed version | p. 101 |
| The thought collective, the style and the topoi | p. 102 |
| Caves and Doxa | p. 106 |
| Technique, technology and creation (Castoriadis) | p. 107 |
| Social imaginary significations, creation out of nothing - a brief overview | p. 107 |
| What is technique? | p. 112 |
| Cave art as technique | p. 116 |
| Preliminary conclusions on technology | p. 118 |
| Doxology and symbolic forms (Cassirer) | p. 119 |
| Doing with symbolic forms | p. 120 |
| Symbolic pregnance | p. 123 |
| Could cave art be (the traces of) a symbolic form? | p. 129 |
| Cave ending - yet another take on tools and technology | p. 133 |
| On the remarking of the horses in Pech Merle | p. 136 |
| Outside - Again | p. 143 |
| Notes | p. 144 |
| References | p. 161 |
| Index | p. 167 |
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ISBN: 9781137271969
ISBN-10: 1137271965
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 184
Published: 11th December 2012
Dimensions (cm): 22.2 x 14.1
x 1.5
Weight (kg): 0.454
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