/lit/ - Literature

>PhD at 21
How did he do it?

>>22340886

The Fascists live inside MY WALLS!

>writes the entire beatles discography
>destroys reasons with reason
>drives conservatives crazy

How did he do it?

Is the Self as popularly understood obliterated in the experience of aesthetic contemplation? In book 3 of Schopenhauer's The World as Will etc, he says that all individuality and personality is lost once the viewer of some artwork apprehends the Platonic Idea behind it. Adorno cosigns him in his book on aesthetics, saying that, during the aesthetic experience, there remains a temporary suspension of the individuated self, where one is overwhelmed by the meaning of a work of art.

What do you think? When you're reading something, and you run across something incredibly profound (like, for me, at many places in Proust's "Swann's Way"), is the experience one of self-abnegation, or something like the ascetic ideal of the Sufis who wish to lose themselves in the universal meanings of God's attributes, etc etc? Do you lose yourself?

Why did this guy see Fascism in just about everything?

white nationalism, fascism, conservatism, etc are all liberal-egalitarian ideology in disguise

DO NOT PLAY THE JAZZ SIR

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>Quotation marks should be used only when something is quoted and if need be when the text wants to distance itself from a word it is referring to. They are to be rejected as an ironic device. For they exempt the writer from the spirit whose claim is inherent in irony, and they violate the very concept of irony by separating it from the matter at hand and presenting a predetermined judgment on the subject. The abundant ironic quotation marks in Marx and Engels are the shadows that totalitarian methods cast in advance upon their writings, whose intention was the opposite: the seed from which eventually came what Karl Kraus called Moscow double-talk. The indifference to linguistic expression shown in the mechanical delegation of intention to a typographic cliche arouses the suspicion that the very dialectic that constitutes the theory's content has been brought to a standstill and the object assimilated to it from above, without negotiation. Where there is something that needs to be said, indifference to literary form always indicates dogmatization of the content. The blind verdict of ironic quotation marks is its graphic gesture.

Stop listening to jazz

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