Acknowledgements

This architecture is built upon the foundational lineages and structural insights of the following thinkers:

Wilhelm Dilthey (Germany, 1833–1911); Georg Simmel (Germany, 1858–1918); Aby Warburg (Germany, 1866–1929); Ernst Troeltsch (Germany, 1865–1923); Alfred Weber (Germany, 1868–1958); Carl Schmitt (Germany, 1888–1985); Max Scheler (Germany, 1874–1928); Helmuth Plessner (Germany, 1892–1985); Nicolai Hartmann (Germany, 1882–1950); Ernst Cassirer (Germany, 1874–1945); Karl Mannheim (Germany/Hungary, 1893–1947); Erich Auerbach (Germany, 1892–1957); Ernst Robert Curtius (Germany, 1886–1956); Leo Strauss (Germany, 1899–1973); Eric Voegelin (Germany, 1901–1985); Karl Löwith (Germany, 1897–1973); Hans Jonas (Germany, 1903–1993); Hans Blumenberg (Germany, 1920–1996); Reinhart Koselleck (Germany, 1923–2006); Joachim Ritter (Germany, 1903–1974); Odo Marquard (Germany, 1928–2015); Hermann Lübbe (Germany, 1926–); Niklas Luhmann (Germany, 1927–1998); Arnold Gehlen (Germany, 1904–1976); Ernst Kantorowicz (Germany, 1895–1963); Siegfried Kracauer (Germany, 1889–1966); Jacob Taubes (Germany, 1923–1987); Franz Rosenzweig (Germany, 1886–1929); Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (Germany, 1888–1973);

Giambattista Vico (Italy, 1668–1744); Cesare Beccaria (Italy, 1738–1794); Pietro Verri (Italy, 1728–1797); Antonio Rosmini (Italy, 1797–1855); Vincenzo Gioberti (Italy, 1801–1852); Bertrando Spaventa (Italy, 1817–1883); Carlo Cattaneo (Italy, 1801–1869); Benedetto Croce (Italy, 1866–1952); Giovanni Gentile (Italy, 1875–1944); Vilfredo Pareto (Italy, 1848–1923); Gaetano Mosca (Italy, 1858–1941); Adriano Tilgher (Italy, 1887–1941); Piero Gobetti (Italy, 1901–1926); Norberto Bobbio (Italy, 1909–2004); Galvano della Volpe (Italy, 1895–1968); Luigi Pareyson (Italy, 1918–1991); Antonio Banfi (Italy, 1886–1957); Delio Cantimori (Italy, 1904–1966); Arnaldo Momigliano (Italy, 1908–1987); Gianni Vattimo (Italy, 1936–2023); Emanuele Severino (Italy, 1929–2020); Augusto Del Noce (Italy, 1910–1989); Massimo Cacciari (Italy, 1944–); Roberto Esposito (Italy, 1950–);

Joseph de Maistre (France, 1753–1821); Louis de Bonald (France, 1754–1840); Félicité de Lamennais (France, 1782–1854); Maurice Blondel (France, 1861–1949); Henri de Lubac (France, 1896–1991); Erik Peterson (France/Germany, 1890–1960); Maurice Halbwachs (France, 1877–1945); Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (France, 1857–1939); Gaston Bachelard (France, 1884–1962); Georges Canguilhem (France, 1904–1995); Alexandre Koyré (France, 1892–1964); Alexandre Kojève (France, 1902–1968); Simone Weil (France, 1909–1943); Gabriel Marcel (France, 1889–1973); Jacques Ellul (France, 1912–1994);

Francisco de Vitoria (Spain, 1483–1546); Francisco Suárez (Spain, 1548–1617); Luis de Molina (Spain, 1535–1600); Baltasar Gracián (Spain, 1601–1658); Juan Donoso Cortés (Spain, 1809–1853); Miguel de Unamuno (Spain, 1864–1936); María Zambrano (Spain, 1904–1991); Xavier Zubiri (Spain, 1898–1983); Eugenio d'Ors (Spain, 1881–1954); António Sérgio (Portugal, 1883–1969); Agostinho da Silva (Portugal, 1906–1994); Eduardo Lourenço (Portugal, 1923–2020);

Bernard Bolzano (Austria, 1781–1848); Franz Brentano (Austria, 1838–1917); Alexius Meinong (Austria, 1853–1920); Ernst Mach (Austria, 1838–1916); Otto Neurath (Austria, 1882–1945); Hans Kelsen (Austria, 1881–1973); Othmar Spann (Austria, 1878–1950); Hermann Broch (Austria, 1886–1951); Robert Musil (Austria, 1880–1942); Egon Friedell (Austria, 1878–1938); Jean Gebser (Switzerland, 1905–1973); Max Picard (Switzerland, 1888–1965); Ludwig Hohl (Switzerland, 1904–1980); Denis de Rougemont (Switzerland, 1906–1985); Jeanne Hersch (Switzerland, 1910–2000);

Jan Patočka (Czechia, 1907–1977); Karel Kosík (Czechia, 1926–2003); Vilém Flusser (Czechia, 1920–1991); Roman Ingarden (Poland, 1893–1970); Leszek Kołakowski (Poland, 1927–2009); Stanisław Brzozowski (Poland, 1878–1911); Józef Tischner (Poland, 1931–2000); Georg Lukács (Hungary, 1885–1971); Michael Polanyi (Hungary, 1891–1976); Béla Hamvas (Hungary, 1897–1968); Aurel Kolnai (Hungary, 1900–1973);

Rudjer Bošković (Croatia, 1711–1787); Nikolai Velimirović (Serbia, 1880–1956); Justin Popović (Serbia, 1894–1979); Dimitrije Mitrinović (Serbia, 1887–1953); Branislav Petronijević (Serbia, 1875–1954); Constantin Noica (Romania, 1909–1987); Lucian Blaga (Romania, 1895–1961); Mihail Şora (Romania, 1916–2023);

Pyotr Chaadaev (Russia, 1794–1856); Konstantin Leontiev (Russia, 1831–1891); Nikolai Fyodorov (Russia, 1829–1903); Vladimir Solovyov (Russia, 1853–1900); Nikolai Berdyaev (Russia, 1874–1948); Sergei Bulgakov (Russia, 1871–1944); Pavel Florensky (Russia, 1882–1937); Lev Shestov (Russia, 1866–1938); Semyon Frank (Russia, 1877–1950); Gustav Shpet (Russia, 1879–1937); Mikhail Bakhtin (Russia, 1895–1975); Alexei Losev (Russia, 1893–1988); Vladimir Vernadsky (Russia, 1863–1945);

Emanuel Swedenborg (Sweden, 1688–1772); N. F. S. Grundtvig (Denmark, 1783–1872); Harald Høffding (Denmark, 1843–1931); Knud E. Løgstrup (Denmark, 1905–1981); Peter Wessel Zapffe (Norway, 1899–1990); Eino Kaila (Finland, 1890–1958); Georg Henrik von Wright (Finland, 1916–2003); Edvard Westermarck (Finland, 1862–1939); Uno Harva (Finland, 1882–1949).

These are the hands that kept the gaze from kneeling. Flanders against the vanishing point; the made thing against the measured one; the world drawn to be understood, not to be owned:

Jan van Eyck (Flanders, c.1390–1441); Rogier van der Weyden (Flanders, c.1400–1464); Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlands, c.1450–1516); Matthias Grünewald (Germany, c.1470–1528); Albrecht Dürer (Germany, 1471–1528); Lucas Cranach the Elder (Germany, 1472–1553); Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlands, c.1525–1569); Jacques Callot (France, 1592–1635); Diego Velázquez (Spain, 1599–1660); Rembrandt van Rijn (Netherlands, 1606–1669);

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italy, 1720–1778); Henry Fuseli (Switzerland/England, 1741–1825); Francisco Goya (Spain, 1746–1828); William Blake (England, 1757–1827); Caspar David Friedrich (Germany, 1774–1840); J. M. W. Turner (England, 1775–1851);

Odilon Redon (France, 1840–1916); James Ensor (Belgium, 1860–1949); Gustav Klimt (Austria, 1862–1918); Edvard Munch (Norway, 1863–1944); Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, 1866–1944); Alfred Kubin (Austria, 1877–1959); Hilma af Klint (Sweden, 1862–1944); Käthe Kollwitz (Germany, 1867–1945); Paula Modersohn-Becker (Germany, 1876–1907);

Kazimir Malevich (Russia, 1879–1935); Vladimir Tatlin (Russia, 1885–1953); El Lissitzky (Russia, 1890–1941); Alexander Rodchenko (Russia, 1891–1956); Paul Klee (Switzerland/Germany, 1879–1940); Oskar Schlemmer (Germany, 1888–1943); László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, 1895–1946); Piet Mondrian (Netherlands, 1872–1944); Theo van Doesburg (Netherlands, 1883–1931); Giorgio de Chirico (Italy, 1888–1978); Max Beckmann (Germany, 1884–1950); Otto Dix (Germany, 1891–1969); George Grosz (Germany, 1893–1959);

Giorgio Morandi (Italy, 1890–1964); Mark Rothko (Latvia/USA, 1903–1970); Barnett Newman (USA, 1905–1970); Lucio Fontana (Italy/Argentina, 1899–1968);  Anselm Kiefer (Germany, 1945–); Gerhard Richter (Germany, 1932–); On Kawara (Japan, 1933–2014); Agnes Martin (Canada/USA, 1912–2004); Cy Twombly (USA, 1928–2011).