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In the spirit of Sir Ernst Gombrich, this essay uses an anecdote - a chat between Gombrich and a barber from Tuscany - to illustrate a deeper point, namely, how cultural memory, tradition, and a canon give rise to an implied language of culture and cultural value. Gombrich staunchly defended tradition against relativism. By relativism, he meant something like 'radical subjectivism'. To his mind, subjectivism...
The paper deals with Ernst Hans Gombrich's lifelong polemics against metaphysics in art history and the humanities. They began in 1937 and continued up until his final (posthumous) book 'The Preference for the Primitives'. Analyzing the 'fallacies' and 'pitfalls' resulting from metaphysical collectivism, essentialism, expressionism, holism and relativism such as a 'belief in hypostatized collective...
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