El Templo de Minerva en la Espana del XVIII

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Counter-rational reason: Goya's instrumental negotiations of flesh and world

“…The humanized donkey, a manifest contradiction, destabilizes the rational representation of reality; a legible methodology whose organization and homogeneity portrayed in the monochromatic uniformity and linear disposition of the asinine figures on the page is coextensive with representation itself. Goya's altered representations of the body fracture the classical body and parallel in the same way 'the cognitive fault-lines detected by Foucault 10,11 in both Classical and Enlightenment mentalities' [Ilie, 1995, p. 194]. 12 Natural science and the language of empiricism was the epistemic ideal of the 18th century.…”