On Creation, Cave Art and Perception
A Doxological Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4481353 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mats Rosengren (0000-0001-9062-448X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-96 |
| Publication date | 2007-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513607079258 |
| OpenAlex | W2023197038 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
The discovery of Palaeolithic cave art in the late 19th century entails many problems, some of which are perceptual. Presenting doxology as a post-phenomenological way of approaching epistemic and perceptual questions, this article draws on the problematics of cave art and contemporary cognitive science to discuss the process of perception - what it takes to see what one sees - in caves (and elsewhere). The article concludes that in order to see and perceive anything at all, both our physical and our conceptual resources - the light of the sun as well as the light of the mind, as Empedocles might have said - are needed. The light of the mind is always inextricably linked to doxa. Thus, the article argues that a doxological approach to questions of perception and knowledge is required
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Cave · Cave painting · Cognitive science · Doxa · Epistemology · Perception · Sociology · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Philosophy · Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2018 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |