Walter: Think of how many hours you wasted in
classes listening to
a prof who had no erotic connection to either his
discipline or his students.
Eric: I wonder why our culture dismisses the
connection between eros and learning? Maybe it
doesn't fit into the
factory-settings-and-standards model. Some Puritan
remnant? Some Cartesian resistance? Or maybe
because in our culture, the erotic is treated so
obviously as a commodity, a need with a
fulfillment, that we resist seeing it as a
pervasive force?
Today's lecture is on Nietzsche's
Apollonian-Dionysian synergy, but we shall discuss
it in a purely Apollonian way. Go figure!
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