The philosophy of social practices and interpretation of feelings.

Hellevig

All is art!

This web-site is intended for presenting the philosophy of social practices and interpretation of feelings.

These notions I initially developed in my book “Expressions and Interpretations” (2006). This book you can download from this site for free by clicking here. The main ideas presented in the book are also displayed in the various sections of this site.

Now I also announce my book (August 2007): All is Art. (inquiries and orders can be placed by clicking here, further information here).

All is Art is a book in two sections: On Social Practices and Interpretation of Feelings, and On Democratic Competition.
The first section of the book launches social practices and individual interpretation of feelings and language in which they are manifested as the new philosophical paradigm, the framework for all cognition. The book is devastatingly critical to the modern conception of science and instead shows how all is art, even science being but a form of art. – The presentation owes a lot to Marcel Proust’s treaties on the human nature telling how philosophy and life itself is a search for lost time, back to the roots of humanity, and that at the end of the search there is time regained, and the future.

The second section of the book discusses the essence of democracy from the point of view of this new philosophy of social practices. Here the concept democracy is mirrored against Michel Foucault’s concept of power. It is stressed that we should let go of the mental image of these concepts as representing an underlying thingly reality, and instead understand that both are merely names that we give to certain perceptions on life, perceptions that in all reality mirror phenomena in infinite variances, and that these perceptions, power and democracy, in fact, are but various aspects, manifestations of the same phenomena, the one as complex as the other. – As in my earlier book, Expressions and Interpretations, here also the social development of Russia serves as point of reference, and this is also why the reader will understand why Russia’s president Putin is a man with good democratic credentials.

Truly,
Jon Hellevig


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