ATDTDA (2): Lew Basnight /original sin

[Dave Monroe]

--- Joseph T <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>
> The detective story is an American invention
> starting with Poe (though it seems to me that
> Greek tragedy is often a kind of detection story
> of a soul) ...

I would go back to Plato, the notion that Truth (which
is rational) is veiled by appearances ...

> ... and the appeal of the genre is most obviously
> about the "scientific" resolution of a crime
> against the social order....

I would say, more generally, about the abilty of
reason, of rationality, whatever, to get @ truth ...

> It confirms the importance of law, and of the
> pursuit of truth. In that way it is reassuring....

And when the Law, the State, whatever, it te arbiter
of reason, or rationality, whatever ...

> But what is the role of Detective when the social
> order itself is contaminated by criminality as it
> generally is? 

This seems like a question for Dashiell Hammett ...


 
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