https://doi.org/10.36719/2789-6919/43/71-74
Hasan Saghlam
Baku Turkish Anatolian High School
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5053-839X
hsaglam80@gmail.com
Nature versus culture: Reflection of human-nature relations on modernism
Abstract
The article talks about the reflection of human-nature relations in modernist thought. In our modern times, despite the fact that these relations have lost their ritualistic function, they still play the role of the main base that nourishes culture and philosophy. Nature-human relations reflected from myth to religious canonical texts acquired a new meaning during the Renaissance, and later became the main essence of the idea of humanism. In the “Renaissance view” section of his book “The İdea of Nature”, Collingwood explained the philosophy of nature in Europe during the Renaissance as follows: “In the works of Copernicus (1473-1543), it was seen as a view contrary to the Greek view. ), Telesio (1508-88) and Bruno (1548-1600) began to form. The central point of this conflict was to deny that the natural world, the world studied by physical science, is an organism, to claim that it is devoid of both mind and life. This philosophical thought, along with shaping the idea of pantheism, has become one of the main elements of modern art.
Since the 19th century, natural elements have been preferred in art, nature and human relations have become one of the main priorities of art. Postmodernism, which emerged as a continuation of modernism, began to explore the relationship between nature and man in a more mystical way, and the formation of magical realism led to the re-emergence of the relationship between man and nature.
Keywords: man, nature, art, modernism, postmodernism, philosophy