Tag: japan
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Looking Good: A Review of Yasuda’s Beauty Matters.
Anri Yasuda’s Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics 1890-1930. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024 Of the three transcendentals of classical philosophy, which one has suffered, at the hands of modernity, as beauty has suffered? Immanuel Kant famously clipped the wings of the imagination, afraid that her fecundity should compromise the…
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Love, Imitation, and Consciousness: A Review of Automatic Eve.
What makes a human human? Descartes famously offered cogitation as a solution to the question of existence, but as we began to develop thinking machines, new questions began to emerge. “Can machines think?” Alan Turing asked, in the 1950s and proposed that, thought being such a difficult concept, we could try to answer the question…