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Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread - A Philosophical Detective Story (Hardcover)
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Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread - A Philosophical Detective Story (Hardcover)
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A profoundly original philosophical detective story tracing the
surprising history of an anecdote ranging across centuries of
traditions, disciplines, and ideas Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread is
a work of passages taken, written, painted, and sung. It offers a
genealogy of liberty through a micrology of wit. It follows the
long history of a short anecdote. Commissioned to depict the
biblical passage through the Red Sea, a painter covered over a
surface with red paint, explaining thereafter that the Israelites
had already crossed over and that the Egyptians were drowned.
Clearly, not all you see is all you get. Who was the painter and
who the first teller of the tale? Designed as a philosophical
detective story, Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread follows the
extraordinary number of thinkers and artists who have used the Red
Sea anecdote to make so much more than a merely anecdotal point.
Leading the large cast are the philosophers, Arthur Danto and Soren
Kierkegaard, the poet and playwright, Henri Murger, the opera
composer, Giacomo Puccini, and the painter and print-maker, William
Hogarth. Strange companions perhaps, until their use of the
anecdote is shown as working its extraordinary passage through so
many cosmopolitan cities of art and capital. What about the
anecdote brings Danto's philosophy of art into conversation with
Kierkegaard's stages on life's way, with Murger and Puccini's la
vie de boheme, and with Hogarth's modern moral pictures? The book
explores narratives of emancipation in philosophy, theology,
politics, and the arts. What has the passage of the Israelites to
do with the Egyptians who, by many gypsy names, came to be branded
as bohemians when arriving in France from the German lands of
Bohemia? What have Moses and monotheism to do with the history of
monism and the monochrome? And what sort of thread connects a sea
to a square when each is so purposefully named red?
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