“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Summer School: Early Literary Theory 9


...featuring discussions of Edmund Burke, David Hume (bass player of Pink Floyd), Addison, Steele (The Guardian, gore-er of Murdoch) and Young. 

From speculation to correlation
From Spinoza to Hume
From 60s Pink Floyd to 70s Pink Floyd
From having genius to being a genius
From externality to internality

In the 21st century we will make a return to “having genius,” because of environmental awareness. But we won't be able to un-learn what we have learned, about infinite inner space. So we must work our way out of the Hume–Kant correlationist axis without regression.

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