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What Allen Ginsberg would call jawboning over the ”cosmic ferocious” , an unlikely but fortuitous lunch with Jeremy Bentham( 1748-1832) and Franz Kafka over one of Ginsberg’s celebrated ”reality sandwiches”; perhaps Kosher deli-style with the pickle with the King of utilitarianism and the bard of Prague. Pat Robertson claimed that Haiti’s curse is the devil. [...]
”I laugh at the plots hatched by men,” he declared, ”and I enjoy my own being in spite of them.” He died soon after writing these lines, at Ermenonville, north of Paris, where he was staying as the guest of one of his protectors. Jean Jacques Rousseau’s ”Confessions” probably remain his most widely read work. [...]
Avoid inhaling demons.Read the warning label first. The package looked interesting. It read ”Daydream with the Devil. attention. contents highly flammable. handle with caution. verify peremption date. recycle with Lucifer. Save nature.” He saw in his fame only a new cause for persecution. By may of 1762 Jean Jacques Rousseau had produced, within the space [...]
O.K. its a deal the devil said…Just put your John Doe on the dotted line.Obviously, God was far too unreasonable to deal with, too intractable and demanding, pushing the faithful into the arms of the Devil for whom there is no substitute.Everything seemed fine, until the darn metaphysics got in the way and ruined everything. [...]
Jean Jacques Rousseau’s ‘‘Social Contract” was a theoretical blueprint for a society of equals.It was at once a return to original sin within a society of unequals.It was an apex for the planet of the apes of civilization.It was a call to arms and a call to peace. It was the best of times in [...]
”Everything is good as it leaves the hand of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hand of man” . That celebrated opening sentence of ”Emile” contains all of Rousseau’s thought in germ. All the conclusions he reached , no matter how mutually incompatible they may seem, can be traced to the same point of departure. [...]
”Form is essential to art in that it mediates content. Form is the artifacts coherence, however self antagonistic and refracted, through which every successful work separates itself from the merely existing. …what can rightly be called form in artworks fulfills the desiderata of that on which subjective activity takes place just as much as it [...]
Though the goal of spontaneous human combustion can also be attained by splitting atoms and achieving fission in the more social sciences. The vocabulary of art is, a priori, a language. That is, its aim is to communicate to others something which one does not necessarily have a mastery. A language, that, in Eugene Delacroix’s [...]
The twenty somethings. The Generation Y of his time. The Harry Potter infected mania of the Hapsburgs and the first faint scent of a nostalgic return. Wolfgang Amadeus “Quidditch of Music” Mozart. His patience finally snapped when he was made to sit at the valet’s table during one of the archbishop’s state visits to Vienna.” [...]
The ecstatic principle of life itself . At least this is how Soren Kierkegaard saw Mozart. ” I am in love with Mozart like a young girl, Kierkegaard confessed in ”Either/Or”. ”Immortal Mozart I owe you everything; it is thanks to you that I lost my reason, that my soul was awestruck in the very [...]
