NP but we've been here before

[Andreis Passarinho]

REFUTATION:

MIRROR-NEURONS R THE BOMB
LIT (ALL ART, ALL MUSIC) IS EQUIPMENT FOR LIVING
QUIT BEING SO STUPID


On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es> wrote:

> AAGGH!
>
> A philosopher with a column, bad start. Good for popular press but...
> gawd, whar to start?
>
> This is an example of philosphy biting at what it can't chew; did you
> notice how many times he mentioned psychology? You see he starts badly by
> giving us an argument without even talking about how it came to be.
>
> Perhaps it would be best to respond by saying that if life cannot instill
> in us "moral expertise" (a ridiculous term) than why should we expect
> literature to achieve this?
>
> And as if the water were not muddied enough he takes us to aesthetics: "I
> have never been persuaded by arguments purporting to show that literature
> is an arbitrary category that functions merely as a badge of membership in
> an elite. There is such a thing as aesthetic merit, or more likely,
> aesthetic merits, complicated as they may be to articulate or impute to any
> given work."  Of course it is not arbitrary but that doesn't make his
> argument for aesthetic merit any more true.
>
> This fellow might get some answers if he started to think of what people
> (who) "want to insist that the effort makes them more morally enlightened
> as well" and why.
>
> Perhaps this media-philosopher should read some sociologists like Pierre
> Bourdie who have contributed greatly to discussions of literary value, but
> that would require recognizing the value of sociology which is oddly left
> out of the article.
>
> It might be interesting to see what people write in the comment section.
>
> ciao
> mc
>
> ________________________________
> From: Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 2, 2013 1:30 AM
> Subject: NP but we've been here before
>
>
>
> Refute this guy,,,I start with a recent plister's (Monte, I think) mention
> of "mirror neutrons".
>
> >
>
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