"Embody" has two different meanings: 1. to give a body to and 2. to include and represent. Which one do you think is intended in the two following paragraphs from a same book?
Paragraph #1:
Such a move would not necessitate a return to the routinely criticized view of music or painting as high art, some pristine activity. Rather, art could still be studied as a socially constituted cultural form, yet with distinctive characteristics, one of which is a powerful dose of meaning and significance, which can be embedded, embodied,
and transmitted over time and space.
Paragraph #2:
Rather than debating the general question of what art is, Adorno advises us to begin in the concrete, with what is currently called art, finding there a sedimentation of all that has been previously called art. His point is that identifying something as art, whether through the intentions of the creator or its placement in an “art world,” signifies not only an actual object but a tradition of expressive activity, of embodied and embedded meaning. In the particular experiencing of some thing called art, we recall a more universal form of human experience, a way of relating as well as expressing and creating, which we know as “art.”
catttt "Embody" has two different meanings: 1. to give a body to and 2. to include and represent.
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catttt"Embody" has two different meanings: 1. to give a body to and 2. to include and represent. Which one do you think is intended in the two following paragraphs from a same book?
I guess she doesn't include a glossary in her book, or you wouldn't have to ask. She is using jargon, which is a secret language that initiates use with each other. You would ha