Hi everybody!
I'm tanslating an American book concerning philosophy of art. I find it very difficult and sometimes I can't understand meanings of the sentences at all! I'd like to know how can I say "spongy" (is it here used in a metaphorical way?) and "hardnecked" in Italian. It would be enough for me to read a "normal" English explanation of these words!
Below is the context I found them in.
Thank you in advance for your help.
"Decryers of the Internal World, conflationists of mentalism with dualism, the Wittgensteinians fled to the externalities of institutional life rather than admit the compromising internalities of mental life, when they recognize that radical identification was spongy. (...) Here, I think, it will suffice only to indicate that theories of what makes the difference between artworks and mere things have at times prevailed which may appear as philosophically unacceptable as mentalism did to the Wittgensteinians - theories to which the Institutional Theory itself, whatever the motivation of its main adherents, is an obvious hardnecked antidote."
(The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, by Arthur Coleman Danto)
I'm tanslating an American book concerning philosophy of art. I find it very difficult and sometimes I can't understand meanings of the sentences at all! I'd like to know how can I say "spongy" (is it here used in a metaphorical way?) and "hardnecked" in Italian. It would be enough for me to read a "normal" English explanation of these words!
Below is the context I found them in.
Thank you in advance for your help.
"Decryers of the Internal World, conflationists of mentalism with dualism, the Wittgensteinians fled to the externalities of institutional life rather than admit the compromising internalities of mental life, when they recognize that radical identification was spongy. (...) Here, I think, it will suffice only to indicate that theories of what makes the difference between artworks and mere things have at times prevailed which may appear as philosophically unacceptable as mentalism did to the Wittgensteinians - theories to which the Institutional Theory itself, whatever the motivation of its main adherents, is an obvious hardnecked antidote."
(The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, by Arthur Coleman Danto)
