●
Take to class Gothic: visual arts (books).
There is a discontinuity
in the production.
Kingdom of God → Nature. “Subjects of art without
supernatural other worldly justification.
St. Thomas
theological justification for naturalism.
A different
conception of God. Liberalism/liberal world.
Liberalism,
as we think of it today, was impossible in the high middle Ages.
So what we
see is an “unstable equilibrium between world affirming/ world denying
impulses. Dualism
(Chapter Title).
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Rheins
-
Chartres
Ordinary
things at everyday life.
The
relationship between Spirit and Nature is altered (from one-sidedness to a dual
aspect).
A change in the conception of truth → contradiction in
an age of unshaken Faith → Scientific spirit was not very deep.
Willian of
Okran - the ultimate reality.
Sophism → Nominalism - key to gothic dualism.
Houser
explains sociological background. Realism x Nominalism.
Goethe → incomplete cathedral and the impossibility to
complete as times changed. Dynamic sense of life: nominalistic turning to
multiplicity of transitory particulars.
Polemics
about the rib vault/flying buttress: architecture. Read by C19th scholars.
Gothic
church: changing point of view.
● HAXAN → Arabic/Egypt: 2’14” / historical views of wiches.
Cosmogonia
→ Middle Ages 8’30’’
/ 12’21 kissing the devil’s ass.
12’30 anthropomorphism.
14’17 medieval lifestyle.
16’15 frogs/snakes.
18:32
e 19:34 → Poisoning /love filter.
27:48 devil
30’45 special effect/coins and stop motion.
