Arthur O. Lovejoy Lecture
The Gold Seal of 57 CE and the Afterlife of an Inanimate Object
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10244463 |
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| Authors | Joshua A Fogel (0000-0001-5711-9713, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 351-369 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jhi.2012.0029 |
| OpenAlex | W2167953559 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This essay operates on the assumption that objects can inspire thought, and thought can generate debate, and the consequences of that debate can be of ontological importance. Thus, the inanimate object plays no “conscious” role in engendering ideas, but humans invest in it a range of meanings which can reach levels of great cultural and historical significance. The object in question is a golden seal, presently on display in the Fukuoka City Museum in Japan
Aesthetics · Afterlife · Ancient history · Epistemology · Linguistics · Object (grammar) · Seal (emblem) · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Highly cited | No |
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