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Into the Unseen, the Unsaying, the Unknowing: Whitehead's Mystical Aesthetics in Paul Klee

Into the Unseen, the Unsaying, the Unknowing: Whitehead's Mystical Aesthetics in Paul Klee Into the Unseen, the Unsaying, the Unknowing: Whitehead’s Mystical Aesthetics in Paul Klee Angelo caranfa / stonehill college Philosophy is mystical. mysticism is direct insights into the depths as yet unspoken. What things are . . . refer to depths beyond anything which we can grasp with a clear apprehension. —Alfred North Whitehead Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. —Paul Klee I. Science and the Dehumanization of Life rt and mysticism or negative (apophatic) theology play a central role in the philosophy of Alfred north Whitehead (1861–1947): they show Ahim the cosmos from the unseen, the unspoken, and the unknowing, and therefore from “the ultimate mystery of the universe,” from “supreme 2 3 beauty” (Ai, 343), and from “the infinite [primordial] ground” of all things. This means that Whitehead is looking at the world not as a philosopher of science (that is, with the eyes of reason) but as an artist or a mystic (that is, with imaginative or intuitive eyes); not that Whitehead undervalues logic or the rational mode of thinking, far from it, but it fails to penetrate “the deep- est harmony” (ibid.), “the depths in the nature of things” (Pr, 6), the truth hidden http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Theology & Philosophy University of Illinois Press

Into the Unseen, the Unsaying, the Unknowing: Whitehead's Mystical Aesthetics in Paul Klee

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Into the Unseen, the Unsaying, the Unknowing: Whitehead’s Mystical Aesthetics in Paul Klee Angelo caranfa / stonehill college Philosophy is mystical. mysticism is direct insights into the depths as yet unspoken. What things are . . . refer to depths beyond anything which we can grasp with a clear apprehension. —Alfred North Whitehead Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. —Paul Klee I. Science and the Dehumanization of Life rt and mysticism or negative (apophatic) theology play a central role in the philosophy of Alfred north Whitehead (1861–1947): they show Ahim the cosmos from the unseen, the unspoken, and the unknowing, and therefore from “the ultimate mystery of the universe,” from “supreme 2 3 beauty” (Ai, 343), and from “the infinite [primordial] ground” of all things. This means that Whitehead is looking at the world not as a philosopher of science (that is, with the eyes of reason) but as an artist or a mystic (that is, with imaginative or intuitive eyes); not that Whitehead undervalues logic or the rational mode of thinking, far from it, but it fails to penetrate “the deep- est harmony” (ibid.), “the depths in the nature of things” (Pr, 6), the truth hidden

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American Journal of Theology & Philosophy – University of Illinois Press

Published: Jan 3, 2019

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