Transcendence
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"This deconstructive impulse is characteristic of postmodernist art in general and must be distinguished from the self-critical tendency of modernism. Modernist theory presupposes that mimesis, the adequation of an image to a referent, can be bracketed or suspended ... When the postmodernist work speaks of itself, it is no longer to proclaim its autonomy, its self-sufficiency, its transcendence; rather, it is to narrate its own contingency, insufficiency, lack of transcendence." |
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Etymology
From Old French transcender, Latin transcendere (“to climb over, step over, surpass, transcend”), from trans (“over”) + scandere (“to climb”); see scan; compare ascend, descend.
Religion
- Transcendence (religion), the concept of being entirely beyond the universe (Not a living being).
- Transcendentals, religious and philosophical properties of being.
- Salvation, the human transcendence of death.
Philosophy
- Transcendence (philosophy), climbing or going beyond some philosophical concept or limit
- Transcendentalism, a 19th-century American religious and philosophical movement that advocates that there is an ideal spiritual state that 'transcends' the physical and empirical
- Transcendent theosophy, a school of Islamic philosophy founded by the 17th-century Persian philosopher Mulla Sadra
- Transcendental perspectivism, a philosophy blending perspectivism and transcendentalism
- Transcendental idealism, a doctrine founded by 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant
- Transcendental realism, a concept stemming from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant
- Transcendental Meditation, a Vedic meditation technique introduced by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
- Transcendental Phenomenology, a field of phenomenological inquiry developed by Edmund Husserl.
- Transcendentals, religious and philosophical properties of being.
Other uses
- Transcendence (Alice Coltrane album), a jazz album by Alice Coltrane
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