Inherent normative notions
Hi. Could you please tell me what your understanding is of the following sentence?
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In its historicity, art is an achievement concept, meaning that it carries inherent normative notions, which may vary and are open to challenge, but they still remain there.
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” - Through the Looking-Glass , by Lewis Carroll Jargon has crept into standard English here with "historicity" meaning "the quality of being situated in history". I guess "historicalness" was too ugly for them, and I have to agree. As for "achievement concept", she seems to have borrowed the term from one Jurgen Habermas and hopes that it means something like "subjective".
- ” - Through the Looking-Glass , by Lewis Carroll Jargon has crept into standard English here with "historicity" meaning "the quality of being situated in history".
- I guess "historicalness" was too ugly for them, and I have to agree.
- As for "achievement concept", she seems to have borrowed the term from one Jurgen Habermas and hopes that it means something like "subjective".
- "Inherent normative notions" are ideas unavoidably woven into the fabric of art which tend to establish new norms in their society.
- So, "Art moves and changes through time just like everything else.
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“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” - Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll
Jargon has crept into standard English here with "historicity" meaning "the quality of being situated in history". I guess "historicalness" was too ugly for them, and I have to agree. As for "achievement co
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