Posted in big questions on Jan 15th, 2009 3 Comments »
“If, as [Hannah Arendt] wrote, ‘it is the desire to excel which makes men love the world,’ then our love for the world actually makes it harder for us to love the people who inhabit it.” Adam Kirsch, “Beware of Pity: Hannah Arendt and the power of the impersonal” (The New Yorker, January 12, 2009)
Posted in big questions, imagination on Jan 14th, 2009 No Comments »
I am intrigued by a phrase in “Over the River with Christo & Jeanne-Claude,” by Steven C. Munson: “The focus is on what the artists have done, not on what they have made.” Mr. Munson contrasts the ephemeral character of work by Christo and Jeanne-Claude with the relatively enduring nature of most of the art [...]
Posted in a luta continua, big questions, imagination, the story and its songs, Uncategorized on Jan 6th, 2009 3 Comments »
phl-248-2009-aesthetics-session-one-handout In the first session of my aesthetics course at Redeemer University College, last night, we watched a documentary on Andy Goldsworthy, and talked about the possible meanings of the words “nature” and “culture.” Something I noticed for the first time in this viewing of the movie was this claim from Mr. Goldsworthy: “I feel [...]
