44 definitions
Analysis (n.) is a thing whereby, in order to begin, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.
Barbarization (n.) is a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and superseded by elements of lower quality.
Cinema (n.) is responsible for the art of watching having been reduced to mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.
Cinema (n.) allows a number of aesthetic-intellectual means of perception to remain unexercised which cannot but lead to a weakening of judgment.
The City (n.) hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.
Culture (n.) is a certain balance of material and spiritual values.
Culture (n.) is control over nature.
Culture (n.) is always possessed of an element of striving.
Culture (n.) arises and unfolds in and as play. Culture itself bears the character of play.
Culture (n.) necessarily has its ultimate aim in the metaphysical.
Culture (n.) is preserved only by continuing to create it.
Culture (n.) is worthy of the name insofar as it involves an element of striving.
Hero (n.) is a title bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
History (n.) makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeing them in a simple form.
History (n.) is capable of predicting only that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
History (n.) is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
Metaphor (n.) is essential in the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization, and the central metaphor for culture is a pathological one, based on disease and disorder.
Play (n.) is a free activity standing quite consciously outside 'ordinary' life as being 'not serious', but at the same time absorbing the player intensely and utterly.
Play (n.) proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted, and outside the sphere of necessity or material utility.
Play (n.) is characterized by a mood of rapture and enthusiasm and is accompanied by a feeling of exaltation and tension.