McKeon on Mann on Freud (Philosophy, Science, Passion & Philosophy, Science, Art)

[alice wellintown]

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo3645720.html

On 7/5/13, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thabnks for this.....I know (some of) McKeon's work...mostly on Aristotle.
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> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 5, 2013 7:48 AM
> Subject: McKeon on Mann on Freud (Philosophy, Science, Passion & Philosophy,
> Science, Art)
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> Most of the irony of which McKeon speaks is lost on us now, now when
> Science/Technic have come to dominate the others so completely that
> the novelist, such as Pynchon, who, like Mann, as decribed in McKeon's
> little address, works in an art that is constantly deconstructing,
> shifting focus and form, now the will to meaning, from the philosphers
> Mann studied, now the meaning made conspiracy nostalgically
> projectiong a world under erasure in zones that, like a Hericlitian
> river under the feet of a man in flux, fade away but from the memory,
> the memory of the people now made art against oppressive claims to
> history.
>
> And Science/ Technic, the Little Man, now free from the Pragmatists
> and Pluralists, the post-Bomb sanity that Dewey and McKeon, the
> Chicago School advanced, must stand up and speak for Philosophy and
> Art, for it has silenced both, and will, with unbridled hubris, push
> the button on us all.
>
> Norbert Weiner said that the big men of old science are marginalized
> by the Little Man who loves his technology and funding, who applies
> his favorite formula to the scatterbrained beauties of Nature, and
> yearns to live in Space outside of Time.
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> http://www.richardmckeon.org/content/e-Publications/b-OnIndividuals/McK-ThomasMann.pdf