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Max Ernst - Landscape with Wheat Sprouts , 1936 |
Does a consideration (discussion) of Noumena and Phenomena contribute to an appropriate response to this painting; say, for example, in description or criticism, or even, more broadly, in a discussion about aesthetics that uses this painting as a point of departure? Is a consideration of Noumena and Phenomena characteristic of an inappropriate response to this (or any) painting? Next, do these questions challenge the concept of Noumena and Phenomena, in particular the existence of a noumenal object, be it in space or space qua space? Finally, can a Noumenon, as such, even be an object, or is its efficacy necessarily relegated and limited to the status of a grammatical subject, as an abstraction, as a concept without an antecedent (compare a relative pronoun lacking an antecedent), as a figment of conceptual confusion, as a specter of syntactic illusion or intellectual myth, and so on?
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