Mediumism: A Philosophical Reconstruction of Modernism for Existential Learning

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Mediumism A Philosophical Reconstruction of Modernism for Existential Learning RENÉ V. ARCILLA Published by S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y O F N E W Y O R K P R E S S Albany© 2010 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. For information, contact State University of New York Press, Albany, NY www.sunypress.edu Production, Laurie Searl Marketing, Anne M. Valentine Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Arcilla, René Vincente, 1956Mediumism : a philosophical reconstruction of modernism for existential learning / René V. Arcilla. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4384-2925-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Education— Philosophy. 2. Learning—Philosophy. 3. Existentialism. I. Title. LB14.7.A733 2010 370.1—dc22 2009008530 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Cover art: Patricia Dahl, Untitled, oil on canvas, 72" × 60", 2009. Photographed by Ingrid Roe. Used by permission. To Patricia, a history sublime You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. —Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet ...