A cultured society fallen away religious traditions expects art aesthe — Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth Method

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A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology… gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.

Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method

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