Art, Form, and Civilization

Western civilization is grappling with a profound crisis of unity and meaning, as analytical methods and intense specialization have fragmented knowledge and severed its connection to the holistic purpose of life: enabling humanity to embrace existence more fully. In this fragmented state, man is compartmentalized into roles such as economic, political, scientific, or philosophical beings, losing the harmony of a unified self that relates to others, nature, and the divine. This compartmenta...