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Part 7 of 7 (other parts here)

7. The Aim of the Universe

I have argued that man’s nature is to be the mirror of nature, and that this begins in the European caves. As Aristotle and Pico have taught us, man is, in a way, nothing — and all. Read more …

Published: January 9, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropology, Aristotle, art, articles, cave art, Collin Cleary, ekstasis, European prehistory, G. W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, teleology | 23 Responses

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The Stones Cry Out:
Cave Art & the Origin of the Human Spirit, Part 6

Collin Cleary

Man as microcosm

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6. All and Nothing

In my account of ekstasis, I have drawn principally on two philosophers: Heidegger and Schopenhauer. And Hegel has been peeping out at certain points in my discussion (he will have a much bigger role to play very soon). But the truth is that the ideas I have been expounding in this essay have deep roots in the Western tradition, and are much older even than Hegel.

The Stones Cry Out:
Cave Art & the Origin of the Human Spirit, Part 5

Collin Cleary

3,360 words

Part 5 of 7 (other parts here)

5. Can Biology Explain Ekstasis?

I have already mentioned that scientists speculate that cave art (and religion, language, etc.) comes about as a result of some kind of genetic mutation, perhaps a “sudden, serendipitous, genetically-based brain reorganization.” Read more …

Published: January 7, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetic experience, anthropology, Aristophanes, art, Arthur Schopenhauer, articles, cave art, Collin Cleary, Darwinism, ekstasis, European prehistory, evolutionary psychology, Martin Heidegger, materialism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Socrates, teleology | 2 Responses

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The Stones Cry Out:
Cave Art & the Origin of the Human Spirit, Part 4

Collin Cleary

1,694 words

Part 4 of 7 (other parts here)

4. “To be human means to be a sayer”

The ability to perceive essences (“Ideas,” as Schopenhauer puts it) plays a role in other human activities besides art. Read more …

Published: January 6, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetic experience, anthropology, art, articles, cave art, Collin Cleary, ekstasis, European prehistory, language, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | 2 Responses

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The Stones Cry Out:
Cave Art & the Origin of the Human Spirit, Part 3

Collin Cleary

2,750 words

Part 3 of 7 (other parts here)

3. Art Begins in Wonder

My thesis, quite simply, is that art, religion, and language are all made possible by a mental or cognitive act which I have called elsewhere ekstasis.[1] To better understand what this consists in, I will ask the reader to consider a simple (or, perhaps, not so simple) question. Read more …

Published: January 3, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetic experience, anthropology, art, Arthur Schopenhauer, articles, cave art, Collin Cleary, ekstasis, European prehistory, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, shamanism | 4 Responses

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The Stones Cry Out:
Cave Art & the Origin of the Human Spirit, Part 2

Collin Cleary

3,250 words

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2. Theories of Stone Age Cave Art

One of the first attempts to explain the origin of Upper Paleolithic cave art was formulated by the French paleontologist Édouard Lartet (1801–1871), Read more …

Published: January 2, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropology, art, articles, cave art, Collin Cleary, European identity, European prehistory, Georges Bataille, Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, shamanism | 1 Response

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The Stones Cry Out:
Cave Art & the Origin of the Human Spirit, Part 1

Collin Cleary

Lions, Chauvet cave, France, painted circa. 35,000 years ago

Lions, Chauvet cave, France, painted around 35,000 years ago

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1. The Problem

Men first began to paint about 40,000 years ago, during a period of our pre-history referred to as the “Upper Paleolithic” (which lasted from about 50,000 to 10,000 years ago). This was the period in which fully anatomically and behaviorally “modern” Homo sapiens appeared. Read more …