The Concept of Festivity in Contemporary Thinking (Philosophy, Literature, Art)

Abstract

The study of festive vocabulary and its representations in contemporary Arab art sheds light on other features the in Arab society, as it is considered one of the components of the Arabic personality, and among these features, there’s the feature of continuity, it means that there are some ancient cultural vocabulary that continue to exist in Arab societies until nowadays.

The roots of festivity go way back to the ancient times, as it existed in many of ancient societies’ cultural details , as it was in the ancient civilizations that are now the homeland of the Arab world.

Arabic art in general represents a spirit of communication between all arts in various ages that the Arab countries have gone through.

The research tries to focus on some issues that pose few questions in this matter and the researcher will have to answer these questions in this paper.

These questions are; What are the premises and origins from which these ideas of festivity are rooted from? What are its images that were characterized with enriching aspects of artistic visions and artistic taste in the contemporary Arab artist?  Where does the importance of the subject and knowledge of these vocabulary represented by festivity lie?

This research (The concept of Festivity in Contemporary Thought, Philosophy, Literature, Art)) will include four chapters;

Chapter one: Includes the general framework of the research, containing the research main problem, which was summarized by the researcher with this question (What is the concept of festivity in contemporary thought (philosophy, literature, art? ), in order to establish the research goal and its formulation. The researcher identified his research in varying periods of time.  The chapter ends in defining the terms and listing their linguistic and idiomatic definitions as well as the procedural definitions that agree with the researcher's point of view.