[lit-ideas] Re: Lit-Ideas Taking a chance
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 23:11:29 EST
Why don't you tell us your area of expertise, Greg, and we will focus on it
a bit. It doesn't take much to get this group's attention. Literary theory?
Pre-Sots? Deconstructionism? Heidegger? Kant? Descartes? Ethics?
Cognitive science? Aesthetics? Logic? Epistemology? Ontology? Or are
you
more closely focused? Is there a particular argument you wish to examine with
us? Or literature. Do you have a piece in mind about which you wish to
engage in discourse? Prose or poetry? Do you like to discuss contemporary
lit?
Victorian? Russian? Pick a piece, any piece, and I guarantee you you
will receive dialogue in wide band-width. I could pick a philosophical topic
or literary technique or piece but it would likely not please your tastes. I
know. I'm interested in the contrast between phenomenology and
impressionism. Hereclites? Anaximander? Chalmers? Pick something anything.
I promise
you it will be discussed. But I can't guarantee a low band-width. It's a
mouthy group, really.
Julie Krueger
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Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Lit-Ideas Taking a chance Date: 11/6/04 9:59:39 PM
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At 07:31 PM 11/6/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>I'm curious. Are you, Greg, screening my posts, or do you just prefer
>complaining to looking for evidence that you might not be correct?
>
>Earlier today I posted in a philosophical vein--Athens v Sparta--for
>discussion. One person responded, and it wasn't you.
>Carol K.
>
When, upon opening the posting you are referencing, I saw you using lots of
wording like "Bush and his ilk" and "Karl Rove" and "liberals" and
"Republican" and "tactics" and "Kerry" and "war" and "evangelical," I
honestly have to confess that my first thought was not: "Great, finally
something that isn't the usual recycled political and ideological
wrangling." Do you think mentioning Athens and Sparta makes the usual topics
into a philosophical discussion?
In a prior post I mentioned "ideas about literature or philosophy or the
arts... discussed substantively and not as a means toward polemical
political cliche." That "not as..." clause is important.
Greg Downing
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