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Thinking Critically about Critical Theory
First thought. The broad takeaway insight of postmodernism is the following: there is always more in a text than the author knows or intends. This goes rather nicely with Nietzsche’s claim that “there are no facts, only interpretations.” But before … Continue reading
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Tagged aristotle, critical theory, critical thinking, derrida, Marxism, postmodernism, romanticism
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Thinking about the Fifth Dimension (the Imagination and the Musical Group)
In a world where God is dead (or at least silent), what dimension should you live in? In other words, should you live in “reality” (whatever that really is) or might you skip the reality quest and spend your life mostly in the realm of imagination? Here’s … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, balloons, Dionysus, imagination, Jesus, Nietzsche, Paul, peter pan, romanticism, St. Paul, the fifth dimension, the imagination
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Adam Kirsch Reviews Zeev Sternhell’s New Book on the Enlightenment v. Romanticism
Are you an Enlightenment universalist, a brooding Romantic, or a Rorty-like Pragmatist trying to split the difference? Regardless of your answer, a new book has just come out with a very definite point of view on the question (the author … Continue reading
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Tagged Dostoevsky, isaiah berlin, philosophy, pragmatism, richard rorty, romanticism, the Enlightenment, thomas carlyle, Wordsworth
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Are You a Romantic or an Enlightenment Rationalist?
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Tagged Blake, Freud, philosophy, poetry, psychology, reason, romanticism, Shelley, skepticism, Walt Whitman, Whitman, Wordsworth
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The Contemporary World’s Metaphysical and Epistemic Grand Canyon: Are You a Brooding Romantic or a Rational Universalist?
In his essay, “Grandeur, profundity, and finitude“, atheist pragmatist philosopher, Richard Rorty, tries to walk us back from what he sees as our two chief metaphysical and epistemic precipices: romanticism and rational universalism. He starts with romanticism (84): The romantics became convinced … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Daniel Dennett, deepities, God, John the Baptist, percy bysshe shelley, poetry, reason, richard rorty, romanticism, science
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Levi’s Abusing Walt Whitman?
I think I dislike this use of Walt Whitman. It feels like a debasement of his poetry—like using the Bible or the Bhagavad Gita to sell soda. And what’s up with the Leni Riefenstahl vibe and the fascist salutes (one toward the … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, fascism, levis, marketing, pioneers, poems, poetry, propaganda, romanticism, Walt Whitman
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John Keats on the 1781 Discovery of Uranus
In a Slate.com review of Richard Holmes’s new book on Romanticism and science, the reviewer notes a reference to astronomer William Herschel’s discovery of the planet Uranus in one of John Keats’s sonnets: In Keats’ sonnet “On First Looking Into … Continue reading
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Tagged astronomy, John Keats, literature, poetry, romanticism, science, william Herschel
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Love Hurts
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Tagged 1970s, ballads, dating, life, love, marriage, nazareth, poetry, romanticism
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Thomas Gainsborough’s Daughters Hold Hands. One Reaches for a Butterfly. The Other, Holding a Feather, Looks On. There is an Element of Impulse and Restraint in the Painting That Echoes Michelangelo’s Moses
One girl seems thoughtful, and may be holding a feather that will become a quill pen. The other seems more impulsive. Like Michelangelo’s Moses, tugging back at his beard to restrain his anger and energies, I see one girl slightly … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th century, art, daughters, Freud, Judaism, life, Moses, painting, psychology, romanticism, sisters, thomas constable
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“With a Little Help from My Friends”: Joe Cocker in Translation
Question: What is poetry, really? Answer: Joe Cocker in translation.
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Tagged hippies, humor, Joe Biden, Joe Cocker, life, literature, longing, love, peace, poetry, romanticism, woodstock
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“Nuns Fret Not”: A Sonnet by William Wordsworth (1807)
Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells; And students with their pensive citadels; Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom, Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom, High … Continue reading
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Tagged England, Lake District, Nuns, poems, poetry, romanticism, Santi Tafarella, Sonnets, William Wordsworth, writing
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Prometheus Unbound 