[lit-ideas] Re: The Deipnosophists
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:45:33 -0500
>>Comments on the perversities of Athenaios welcome
It could be that the connection between eros and learning is repressed
in Western cultures. Sure we have, as the commonplace wisdom goes,
troubadours inventing romantic love and some good poetry from their
erotic energy. Don Quixote freeing prisoners and sheep and getting
beaten to a pulp every couple pages. Shakespeare's sonnets. In a culture
that has only recently abandoned regulating erotic energy; instead using
it as a marketing device ... we probably undervalue poor old eros, and
either want him as hidden dynamo or, more recently, as carnival barker.
Can anyone recommend essays on the relationship between eros and
learning, eros and creativity, or eros and achievement? Non-Freudian
preferred.
Bests,
Eric
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