Abstract
The realm of mystery of matter that has long inspired creative minds has been broken by runaway complexification of life into fragments tossed around in voids of ‘total presence’. Apart from notable exceptions, the origin and actuality of the material condition of humans remain hidden from view by layers of ‘neo-baroque’ allegories framing narratives of the post-mechanical age. It is argued that resurrection of the ontic role of encounters with material reality may restore what has always served as an indispensable source of personal identity and life-sustaining narratives. It is also a means to fostering narrative novelty in the process of instilling timely attitudes and competences, with a view to ensuring that every individual can effectively engage with materiality of their presence and build upon its appreciation and on any inspiration it can offer, at the pace and level of accomplishment matching their personal ability and circumstances. It is this grounding of knowing and being that offers the promise of a bottom up transition to citizenship in a shared Common in which the key measure of value rests with promoting personal independence and social emancipation! What are the key stages of ‘allegorisation’ of narrativity and literary narratives in particular leading to the meta-modern present? What is the fate of materia poetica? The model of curriculum and competence development - grounded in object based, project driven, personal ownership of knowing, and amplifying the tutor-learner component at the expense of top down ‘talk and chalk’ - recently developed to take higher education into the digital age may be instrumental in delivering such objectives, and prove to be particularly relevant post-Covid 19.
Highlights
NotesThe upheavals in the 16th and 17th Europe that followed collapse of the authority of Summa Theologica, and decline of the Renaissance canon led to what we have become used to calling the Baroque
After the breakdown of what was perceived to be a universal model of the world upheld by the belief in continuity of all-encompassing social structures, the thinker deprived of a stable source of meaning resorted to allegory
What is the fate of materia poetica of today, until recently an indispensable tool for poets and physicists but for keeping humans sane, away from life in a bubble?
Summary
Already in his Reveries of a Solitary Walker, Jean Jacques Rousseau, reflecting on the fate of the Project of Enlightenment he himself had done much to bring about and promote, lamented about the vocabulary of the Age of Reason. Today’s quantitative empirical methods and tools make it possible to raise the level of our accomplishments in making and modelling patterns of matter whether they fall into domains of science or arts, and cast them as it were for posterity into genealogical sequences organized according to the level of complexity of the relevant sets of independent parameters constituting retrievable, transparently independent records for anyone to examine and to update It is an outstanding intellectual and educational challenge to create means for achieving habitual attitudes and competence enabling every citizen as early in their life as possible to bridge the growing gap between cause and effect, for-itself and for-others that threaten to plague decision making that are crucial for our individual and collective wellbeing
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