Men Explain Lolita To Me

[Charles Albert]

An angry bint with a bludgeon looking to make her bones Arkansasing the
justifiably celebrated work of a dead white guy?

Don't see that every day.

If you want a truly stimulating  and exquisitely balanced investigation of
the same question I recommend Byatt's Possession.

love,

cfa
On Dec 17, 2015 8:59 PM, "John Bailey" <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you approach pop literary criticism with the same standards you
> expect of Kantian philosophy you may end up with a reasonable amount
> of stomach trouble.
>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Tommy Pinecone <endaflynn345 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I had originally extended that message to cover that point but then
> decided
> > to take it away.
> >
> > To show the weight of thought that needs to go behind a conclusion. Kant
> is
> > astoundingly painstaking, as you likely know. That's why I recommended a
> > short introduction, the excerpts can be shocking to someone not used to
> it,
> > it is an education you are not likely to find anywhere else apart from
> first
> > hand in Kant. I could just as easily recommended some of Aristotle's
> work,
> > but Kant is more illustrative of the point.
> >
> > Wittgenstein's big ideas and posthumous work are constructive in a
> similar
> > way.
> >
> > On 18 Dec 2015 01:09, "Danny Weltman" <danny.weltman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> What in Kant's first critique do you find helpful for hitting on "a fast
> >> track way to make someone who is uneducated aware of the blatant flaws
> in
> >> certain ideas and movements that are just unsustainable, and somehow
> having
> >> their day the past few years?"
> >>
> >> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Tommy Pinecone <endaflynn345 at gmail.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> This is why I make it a deliberate priority not to go on Twitter or to
> >>> follow any new intellectual voices.
> >>>
> >>> Every time it is some unfamiliar, alleged authority voicing a loud
> >>> opinion that's appointed a flashy title; for some reason Twitter is
> >>> frequently mentioned along the way.
> >>>
> >>> I hope the majority of you can see through this pettiness. It's
> >>> unfortunate that we are swamped with the hack work and profound
> blanketed
> >>> hate in modern academia, it is however a fortunate thing that we can
> merely
> >>> look away and concentrate on human issues instead of coining new
> derogatory
> >>> terms and stirring up the rabble with a short article.
> >>>
> >>> I often wonder how different these outlooks would be if these people
> were
> >>> introduced to literature in a different way, free from ideology and
> >>> identity-that is an unbiased, philosophical way. I make it a hard
> point with
> >>> any aspiring student to start off with a short introduction to Kant's
> >>> primary Critique and a short introduction to Wittgenstein's thought; no
> >>> doubt it is an anomalous approach, but it's a fast track way to make
> someone
> >>> who is uneducated aware of the blatant flaws in certain ideas and
> movements
> >>> that are just unsustainable, and somehow having their day the past few
> >>> years.
> >>>
> >>> We shouldn't have to pause to think of these things when there are
> bigger
> >>> issues than female characters not being put in the center of the
> stage. What
> >>> if I wanted to pen an article on how I wasn't happy with the lack of
> empathy
> >>> Beckett shows in all of his works, to individuals of both genders no
> less?
> >>> Sure, the circumstances are different here, but not dramatically. It's
> >>> simply absurd. I struggle to believe these type of things when I see
> them
> >>> being taken so seriously by so many. Makes one feel hopeless,
> especially
> >>> when these are still the early years of the internet and the loudest
> voices
> >>> are reaching aspiring students through social media poisoning their
> nascent
> >>> opinions and thoughts.
> >>>
> >>> On 17 Dec 2015 20:51, "Matthew Taylor" <matthew.taylor923 at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Thoughts on Rebecca Solnit's latest?
> >>>>
> >>>> http://lithub.com/men-explain-lolita-to-me/
> >>
> >>
> >
> -
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