Ziran

ZiranThe ancient concept of spontaneous self causation (ziran) from Daoism opens a path to understanding human action as self organizing, attention as effortless, and art as somatic. Ziran, an idea from ancient Daoism, defies easy translation into English but can almost be captured by the term "spontaneity." It means "self causation," if "self" is understood as fundamentally plural, and "causation" is understood as sensitivity and responsiveness. Applying

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the nonrelational analysis of representing explains our awareness of the world

Jean Seznec's La survivance des dieux antiques was first published at the Warburg Institute in 1940 and translated into English as The Survival of the Pagan Gods in 1953 It is a classic survey of the afterlife of the deities of classical Antiquity in art and literature during the Middle Ages and Renaissance

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