Curious Visions of Modernity
Haunted by a secret knowledge and a repressed enchantment, Western rationality is not what it seems.
Rembrandt''s famous painting of an anatomy lesson, the shrunken head of an Australian indigenous leader, an aerial view of Paris from a balloon: all are windows to enchantment, curiosities that illuminate something shadowy and forgotten lurking behind the neat facade of a rational world. In Curious ...
Haunted by a secret knowledge and a repressed enchantment, Western rationality is not what it seems.
Rembrandt''s famous painting of an anatomy lesson, the shrunken head of an Australian indigenous leader, an aerial view of Paris from a balloon: all are windows to enchantment, curiosities that illuminate something shadowy and forgotten lurking behind the neat facade of a rational world. In Curious ...
