8 Culture, evil, and horror.(Part III: Rethinking Culture: Globalization and the Challenges of Interculturality)

From: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT. This chapter develops a concept of aesthetic and existential horror and suggests its importance for understanding modern and postmodern culture. It makes three distinct claims. First, the experience of horror signifies a breakdown in the symbolic categories and valuations of a culture. Second, this experience has ontological significance because in horror the human is exposed to the naked fact of being, This latter point is derived from Heidegger's comments on anxiety and Emmanuel Levinas's notion of the "il y a" or "there is." A third claim follows from these two, ...

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