It is a monumental, remarkable and extraordinary
contribution to the universal thought!
Dário Moreira de Castro Alves
The Fifth Dimension is the result of a course for teachers
created and taught by Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta at the Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation's Institute of Early Childhood Education,
in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1997 and 1998.
They resulted in thirty books, fourteen volumes, which are now
published in two different editions - one in English and another
in Portuguese.
In addition to other information, on this website you can read
the introduction written by the diplomat, translator and philosopher
Dário de Castro Alves; the general introduction with a
"map" of all books; as well as the indexes of names
present in the texts and also in the images, making possible
to identify in which volumes a given name is referred to.
The books (on paper) are internationally distributed by Amazon.
They are also accessible in digital format, free of charge, on
the academia.edu platform.
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The Fifth Dimension is a project on aesthetics and neuroaesthetics.
The ancient meaning of the word "aesthetics" is "perception",
how we perceive and understand the world, and how that understanding
changes over time.
Of course, it deeply implies not only art, music and architecture,
but also philosophy, economics, law, religion or politics.
Neuroaesthetics is the vision of this continuous metamorphosis
under a neurological approach - field which I've studied since
the early 1980s, as a natural development after the ideas of
the brilliant American philosopher and mathematician Charles
Sanders Peirce, who lived between 1839 and 1914 .
In general, neuroaesthetics is presented by physicians talking
about art. Here, it is said by someone who works with art - who
has studied and applied the so-called neurosciences in his own
musical, architectural or art creations for more than forty years
- who presents an approach to neurology and the metamorphosis
of human thought over about two hundred thousand years.
Read it. Spread out among your friends!
Day after day fewer people read books. Memory quickly disintegrates.
Few people already know who was Zeuxis, Cicero, Augustine, Ficino,
Blavatsky, or even Giotto or Leonardo (I am not exaggerating,
if you do a Google search today with the word "Leonardo",
in most countries it will appear a company, a singer or the actor
Leonardo di Caprio). Few know Debussy, Varèse or Fernand
Léger. Not to mention Max Plank, Heisenberg, Helmholtz
or Marvin Minsky.
Stockhausen, Ligeti, René Berger or even Joseph Beuys,
John Cage and Merce Cunningham are unknown to most people. Everything
was quickly replaced by the Big Brother (in both senses: television
programs and surveillance and social control systems). Everything
is quickly replaced by the continuous consumption of entertainment,
which is the absence of thought. But, all these characters that
are being erased are an essential part of who we are, without
whom we cannot understand our lives. Their lives, their ideas,
their questionings, are not of interest to dictatorial spirits.
No defense of the dictatorship, whatever its nature, is acceptable
when one knows the human in some depth.
We live in a moment of rapid erasure of knowledge in an apparent
transition to an instantaneous, volatile and ephemeral culture
- just as the nazi universe aspired: total control of the State
and absence of thought.
The negative freedom - freely elaborated by each one of us -
according to which our right ends when the other's begins, is
the primary condition of the Rule of Law, is not imposed by a
superior power and, therefore, is an act of consciousness that
cannot exist without free knowledge, without free-thinking.
Such freedom, preserving our independence, reveals the creative
dimension of the human... something that brings Picasso to my
mind when he said that every child is an artist, the question
is how to remain artists when we grow up.
Emanuel Pimenta
Artists talk a lot about freedom. So,
recalling the expression "free as a bird", Morton Feldman
went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered
friends. When he came back, he said, "You know? They're
not free: they're fighting over bits of food".
John Cage
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emanuel pimenta
introduction by Dário de Castro Alves
"map" of the books
covers of the books
books by emanuel pimenta
index of names in the texts
index of names in the images
The Fifth Dimension at academia.edu
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Germany, United Kingdom, Spain, Japan, Brazil)
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