Baroque heroism renounces essence-seeking closure in favor of infinite proliferation

Evidence

Science entered an age of rational and basic uncertainties. That is, the conceptions of Nature expanded, became relative, which is the very basis of the baroque tendency. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 433 (#expands, via linked claim)

Why is allegory the appropriate mode for apprehending this world? Because, says Benjamin, unlike romantic symbol (timeless, unified, and spiritualized) baroque allegory has a fluid temporality, it is always fragmented, and it is material. Allegory expresses well the uncontrollable, indeterminable, and yet material world of the baroque princely court with its intrigue, betrayal, and murder. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 317 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Baroque art countered rationalism by making knowledge’s incompleteness its value — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 427; Allegory suits the fragmented material world of baroque courts — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 317; Baroque uncertainty is grounded in relativized scientific knowledge of nature — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 433 (+2 more)

Related

• Baroque art countered rationalism by making knowledge’s incompleteness its value (similarity 0.90)
• Baroque aesthetics abandoned the pursuit of summarizing the world into essential harmonies (similarity 0.89)
• Baroque arose against a rationalist Nature presumed harmonious and fully knowable (similarity 0.86)
• Baroque uncertainty is grounded in relativized scientific knowledge of nature (similarity 0.84)
• Baroque allegory confronts history as a petrified landscape of decline (similarity 0.83)
• Allegory suits the fragmented material world of baroque courts (similarity 0.82)
• The classical spirit unites Versailles hedging, theology, law, and court speech (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Symbols present self-repetitive nature as eternal and endlessly renewed #complicates (0.78)
• Allegory suits the fragmented material world of baroque courts #expands (0.75) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 317
• Baroque uncertainty is grounded in relativized scientific knowledge of nature #expands (0.75) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 433