After a stint of studying Eastern comparative theology, I accidentally meditated and slipped off into the "awakened" state - it goes by many names and many forms - and spent ten days with a very...
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After a stint of studying Eastern comparative theology, I accidentally meditated and slipped off into the "awakened" state - it goes by many names and many forms - and spent ten days with a very...
I repeatedly stated that the relation of art to art would be "first" or "most" important, primarily important, but not singularly so, as you have chose to infer
My comment was meant to be...
All quite true - my post overstates the focus on individual moments and contributions, which is particularly true in the arts. My goal is to draw a comparison that, as science is viewed in relation...
A theory: The proper subject of Art is Art
If we remove any consideration of history and social conditions, and begin by looking at art purely as it relates to itself, we may find that the overall...
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I agree that we agree on pretty much all points so far, with the one exception. I'm not even too certain as to my opinion of Cioran yet.
So far I've kept my reading of him to collected aphorisms...
The question of desire for repetition also struck me. I would say that repetition is not the same as beginning anew, at least in the sense that Cioran meant. There is a certain sense of completeness,...
Never having read or watched Edward Bond's work, I'm afraid I can be of limited use. All I know is the claim that it was meant to be more overtly political and apparently he notches up the violence,...
You know the feeling when a great piece of music is settling to its close? How complete it can be? Contrast that sensation to finishing a great philosophical passage. The first three sentences focus...
I'm writing this as a sort of, "If I could only have five works for the rest of my life" post.
1) Hamlet
2) Moby Dick
3) King Lear
4) Also sprach Zarathustra (his "attack" works are more...
It's been a long time since I've read the book, but I recall feeling that the apparent optimism of the words was rather belayed by the actual circumstances and took the final bit to be ironic. Anyone...
Simply reading, writing, and re-writing are the big three, with particular emphasis on the first and last.
I do have three exercises I enjoy apart from that. The first is coming up with sentences...
For the last two days I've been trying to recall a specific quote, but couldn't quite put together enough to find it again and the name kept slipping my mind - Emil Cioran:
"Thinking should be...
It's often said that Plato and Nietzsche are the two best writers out of the major philosophers. Although Kaufmann is the overall standard in the translation of the latter, I've been extremely...
For years I read no fiction or poetry at all, just history, economics, and philosophy, which were my tastes. Eventually, once I pushed far enough through my studies in philosophy, I came out the...