The True Audience of Art is God
Provocative idea found in an old Zero HP Lovecraft essay in The American Mind: What does the divine care for … Continue reading The True Audience of Art is God
Category: Philosophy
Doing Things For a Reason: Miller’s Crossing and the Friend/Enemy Dynamic
Carl Schmidt was a German jurist and political philosopher of the Weimar and Nazi eras. True to the time, his … Continue reading Doing Things For a Reason: Miller’s Crossing and the Friend/Enemy Dynamic
The Need of Myth
We are used to hearing about Myth as untrue, and also as “a special kind of truth”. I like the … Continue reading The Need of Myth
Logic and Word Games
Over at Rotten Chestnuts, a post on Hegel and Marx that underlines the giant Problem of Philosophy. One reason “underpants … Continue reading Logic and Word Games
The Three Tiers of Aesthetics
A long essay, but worth your time, which dovetails nicely with other things I’ve written on the subject. Our Cranky … Continue reading The Three Tiers of Aesthetics
Lucretius’ Poetic Epicureanism
There once was an Epicurean Roman named Titus Lucretius Carus, who lived in the 1st Century BC. I say “Epicurean” … Continue reading Lucretius’ Poetic Epicureanism
Storming Mottes & Baileys
A very long essay on Medium.com by Gerald Crayon, describing how the pretentious rhetoric of the Academy, their overheated logorrhea … Continue reading Storming Mottes & Baileys
Ovid, Virgil, and Lucretius Walk Into a Palace…
Back when I first conceived The Meditations of Caius Caligulia, I had a list of books I wanted to read … Continue reading Ovid, Virgil, and Lucretius Walk Into a Palace…
The End is Never The End: Nietzsche and the Temptation to Prophesy
Running through The Birth of Tragedy is rewarding so long as you recognize that Friedrich Wilhelm was not primarly speaking … Continue reading The End is Never The End: Nietzsche and the Temptation to Prophesy
Notes on Ruskin: The Absurd Rule
Much of Ruskin’s On the Nature of Gothic involves a pre-Marxist critique of industrialization. I’m not sure if it qualifies … Continue reading Notes on Ruskin: The Absurd Rule
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