Baroque arose against a rationalist Nature presumed harmonious and fully knowable

Evidence

The baroque rnade its appearance in the West at a moment when a particular idea of Nature-as harmonious, homogeneous, and thoroughly knowable-was in force. Rationalism refined this conception, one convenient to its own increasing ambition to master reality. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 423

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended framing of knowledge as power-seeking mastery; the baroque counters the same rationalist mastery impulse the race-struggle counter-history also contested. — connects to: Baroque art countered rationalism by making knowledge’s incompleteness its value — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 427; Baroque aesthetics abandoned the pursuit of summarizing the world into essential harmonies — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 428; Baroque uncertainty is grounded in relativized scientific knowledge of nature — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 433 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Baroque art countered rationalism by making knowledge’s incompleteness its value #corroborates (0.95) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 427
• Baroque aesthetics abandoned the pursuit of summarizing the world into essential harmonies #expands (0.90) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 428
• Baroque heroism renounces essence-seeking closure in favor of infinite proliferation #corroborates (0.85)
• Baroque uncertainty is grounded in relativized scientific knowledge of nature #qualifies (0.75) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 433