22 February 2025

MARGOLIS—The Definition of Art

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Philosophy Looks at the Arts ed. Joseph Margolis (Third Edition, 1987) [137] Part Two The Definition of Art ... ...
25 January 2025

Fingerprints or Mushroom Stamps?

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This is my Goodreads review of Johanna Drucker's Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity. Feeling horny? Grab this bo...
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17 January 2025

GEORGE DICKIE—The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude

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Philosophy Looks at the Arts ed. Joseph Margolis (Third Edition, 1987) What to do with this, knowing that it comes not at the end...
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03 January 2025

TIMOTHY BINKLEY—Contra Aesthetics

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Philosophy Looks at the Arts ed. Joseph Margolis (Third Edition, 1987) [80] Piece: Contra Aesthetics TIMOTHY BINKLEY [or...
19 December 2024

. . . in relation to the unknown

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My dad once said to me that philosophy is "highly destructive of certainty." Thus prompted, I want to enumerate some (possibly n...
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13 December 2024

Wolterstorff—Kissing, Touching, and Crying

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Nicholas Wolterstorff " Why Philosophy of Art Cannot Handle Kissing, Touching, and Crying " (2003) [17] I From Friday...
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15 July 2024

Rank—Art and Artist (viii)—Partiality and Totality

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Otto Rank Art and Artist trans. Charles Francis Atkinson (1932/1989) [100] I have already, in another connexion, s...
12 July 2024

Rank—Art and Artist (vii)—On Abstraction and Intuition

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Otto Rank Art and Artist trans. Charles Francis Atkinson (1932/1989) Chapter Four THE PLA...
07 July 2024

Becker—Escape From Evil (iv)

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Ernest Becker Escape From Evil (1975) [146] CHAPTER TEN Retrospect and Conclusion: What Is the Heroic Society? . . ....

Becker—Escape From Evil (iii)

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Ernest Becker Escape From Evil (1975) [96] CHAPTER EIGHT The Nature of Social Evil Nor can we deny that we all eat ...

Becker—Escape From Evil (ii)

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Ernest Becker Escape From Evil (1975) [52] CHAPTER FOUR The Evolution of Inequality Radin's view of how shamans...

Becker—Escape From Evil (i)

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Ernest Becker Escape From Evil (1975) [xv] Prefatory Note Approaching death, Ernest Becker requested that the original ma...
06 July 2024

Rank—Art and Artist (vi)—Life and Creation

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Otto Rank Art and Artist trans. Charles Francis Atkinson (1932/1989) [37] Chapter Two LIFE AND...

Art and Artist (v) + Bodies and Artifacts (v)

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Otto Rank Art and Artist trans. Charles Francis Atkinson (1932/1989) [11] Primitive religion, as a belief in souls (as we kn...

Rank—Art and Artist (iv)—Dynamic Needs of Equalization

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Otto Rank Art and Artist trans. Charles Francis Atkinson (1932/1989) [xlviii] a paradoxical phenomenon discloses it...
05 July 2024

Becker—Birth (vi)

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Ernest Becker The Birth and Death of Meaning (1970) [155] Chapter Twelve WHAT WOULD A SCIENCE OF MAN THEN BE? The Me...

Becker —Birth (v)

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Ernest Becker The Birth and Death of Meaning (1970) [112] Chapter Ten CULTURE: THE RELATIVITY OF HERO-SYSTEMS ...

Becker—Birth (iv)

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[75] Chapter Eight CULTURE AND PERSONALITY The Standardization of the Self-Esteem "We are born to action; and whate...

Becker—Birth (iii)

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Ernest Becker The Birth and Death of Meaning (1970) [65] Chapter Seven SELF-ESTEEM The Dominant Motive of Man ...

Becker—Birth (ii)

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Ernest Becker The Birth and Death of Meaning (1970) [27] Chapter Four THE INNER WORLD Introduction to the Birth of Trag...
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Becker—The Birth and Death of Meaning (i)

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Ernest Becker The Birth and Death of Meaning (1970) [vii] PREFACE This is an ambitious book. In these times there is hardly ...
21 June 2024

chugging along

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My mind is a steam engine, not a sports car. It is reasonably impressive merely to behold it at rest, immobile and ornamental, but that...
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09 June 2024

Critical Commonplaces

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The Commonplace Raised to a Higher Power Arthur Danto interviewed by Hans Maes (excerpt) This so-called 'method of indiscer...
07 June 2024

KENDALL WALTON—Categories of Art

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Philosophy Looks at the Arts ed. Joseph Margolis (Third Edition, 1987) [53] Categories of Art KENDALL WALTON [orig. 1970]...
30 March 2024

animacy, intimacy, obstinacy

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Engels Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy (orig. 1886) Part 2: Materialism ... From the very early ti...
28 March 2024

Max van Duijn—The Lazy Mindreader

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Max van Duijn The lazy mindreader : a humanities perspective on mindreading and multiple-order intentionality (2016) [9] Intro...
27 March 2024

Edward Vessel—some papers from researchgate

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Edward A. Vessel, G. Gabrielle Starr and Nava Rubin "Art reaches within: aesthetic experience, the self and the default mode networ...
26 March 2024

Hillman and Ventura—Participants in Media Images

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James Hillman and Michael Ventura We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy—And the World's Getting Worse (1992) [124]...
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25 March 2024

Hillman—Life Lived Backwards/Letter Writing

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James Hillman and Michael Ventura We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy—And the World's Getting Worse (1992) [61]...
24 March 2024

McLuhan's New Sciences

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McLuhan's New Sciences (Cameron McEwen) McLuhan and Plato 1 – Phaedrus and Er from a letter of McLuhan's, age 23, on T...
23 March 2024

Frederick Crews—Out of My System

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Frederick Crews Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method (1975) [x] ...the effort to work out a consis...
22 March 2024

where we've been, where we're going, according to the botverse

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kacattac: summarize the theory of aesthetics presented at fickleears.blogspot.com during March 2024 ChatGPT: The theory of aesthetic...

FRANK SIBLEY—Aesthetic Concepts (ii)

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Philosophy Looks at the Arts ed. Joseph Margolis (Third Edition, 1987) [Sibley, "Aesthetic Concepts" (cont.)] [41] ...
21 March 2024

FRANK SIBLEY—Aesthetic Concepts (i)

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Philosophy Looks at the Arts ed. Joseph Margolis (Third Edition, 1987) [29] 2. Aesthetic Concepts FRANK SIBLEY [orig. 1...
20 March 2024

MONROE C. BEARDSLEY—The Aesthetic Point of View

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Philosophy Looks at the Arts ed. Joseph Margolis (Third Edition, 1987) [10] The Aesthetic Point of View MONROE C. BEARDSLE...