exoticism, n.Definitions

Exoticism (n.) charms ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠us as another system of thought but really shows us the limit of our own.

Exoticism (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠religion — overrating a foreign one — is most common among those who know little of their own and have not outgrown it.

Exoticism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the restless interest in every philosophy of the most alien cultures, by which an uprooted age hides that it has no ground of its own to stand on.

Exoticism (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a hidden equation: elevating the exotic Other into an indifferent goddess is strictly the same as treating it like shit.

Exoticism (n.) valued ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠everything that is no longer there, often entirely fabricated in Paris, so as to make nothingness palpable at the heart of the imagination, with ancient Greece more dead and distant than ever.

Exoticism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the strangeness that comes from meeting things only indirectly, through picture or story: outside, but an outside that belongs to no inside.