Volume 50 (1995), 4

The author is concerned with the question: How is the controversy between different definite vocabularies to be resolved in a multicultural society? Can this controversy be resolved by an impartial judge’s rule? Being neither a metaphysician, nor a romanticist aesthete in approaching the metaphor enables us to perceive the definite vocabularies of various cultures… Read more

The author’s starting point is the difference between what he calls „haptic“ sense perception (from the Greek haptó - I touch), i. e. the touch, in which all things are of equal size and shape, and optic sense perception, which sees things in perspective, minifying those seen from a long distance and magnifying those seen from a short distance. He argues… Read more