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This essay takes the challenges posed by a definition of the baroque as model for thinking about the ways in which problems in aesthetic history can shape a philosophy of culture. Attempts to define the baroque as a period within art history have led to an astounding degree of confusion. The search for unifying stylistic markers amid this confusion has led critics to seek deep structures, while historical analyses of the deep structures fail to sustain their connections to style or form. Using the baroque as a model, this essay looks at examples from the visual arts & architecture in order to demonstrate the ways in which deep-structure theories of culture falter by presupposing a more rigid distinction between surface & depth than may be the case. Drawing in part on Deleuze's notion of the fold, this essay proposes that we look at culture as driven by forces that are both materialized in surfaces that are themselves part of any "deep structure.". 10 Figures, 39 References. Adapted from the source document.

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To illustrate the penetration & change of a given philosophical culture into another country with a different intellectual setting & philosophical history, the author presents the affinities between French philosophy & the philosophical culture of Bulgaria. Acceptance of philosophical thought often comes as the diffuse sets of its beliefs are tested by the intellectuals, & often by a wider circle of cultural & historical actors. Such stages are observed during Bulgaria's Cultural Revival, after the 1878 Liberation of Bulgaria, between the two World Wars, & in recent Bulgarian history. The impact of theories from French Enlightenment, materialism, positivism, Bergsonism, structuralism, existentialism, & postmodernism on Bulgarian thought is explored. The Bulgarian philosophical studies cited illustrate the interpretation of the philosophical ideas of foreign culture in light of the Bulgarian uniqueness & its quest to understand its own identity. Today French philosophy integrates the "linguistic turn" & ethics & links philosophy with literature. L. A. Hoffman

A philosophical analysis of the role of the ideal in a society's culture, with focus on Immanual Kant's & G. W. F. Hegel's views on the association of the ideal with contradiction & ways by which its attainment is predicated on the resolution of contradictions. Every ideal is characterized by three elements: (1) an appropriate form of consciousness in which it exists & manifests itself, (2) a certain stage in the development of social life that forms its basic objective reality, & (3) purposeful human activity. The cultural ideal is argued to be the inner image, objective requirement, social incentive, & aim of the activity of social man, & is responsible for balancing SE, political, moral, ethical, artistic, philosophic, & other values generated by social development. 1 Reference. K. Hyatt

Discusses the nature and social functions of idealism. A cultural ideal, combining values from many spheres, underlies all purposeful collective human activity. (CP)