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Read about chaos theory, read albert camus, read marcel proust, Maybe the universe is meant to be in a state of chaos and any attempt to bring it to order is futile.
Hoe kan de ezel bij het hooi komen zonder het touw door te bijten of los te maken? the solution: vuja de The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes - marcel proust— Recently Uploaded Slideshows
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Page 1 of 1 it was mme de sevigné, i ithink, who apologized for writing a long letter because she did not have time to write a short one .... it was mme de sevigné, i ithink, who apologized for writing a long letter because she did not have time to write a short one. nevertheless i think it is a mistake to set up mere brevity as the prime communications skill. yes, it is sometimes helpful to be terse, but it is also useful to ramble and develop themes that lead to unusual places. the great writers - joyce, tolstoy, proust, melville - have always been long-winded. here's a shout-out to long sentences, semicolons, parentheses, and all the tricks of the trade that keep a thought from being neatly encapsulated.— Romenesko
RSS feed. thanks for visiting! once again i'm incapacitated by an awful cold. however, today is world philosophy day, so i just random order of your choosing. last year i met up with one of my old philosophy profs who i hold in high esteem for a number of reasons, one of them being that he had a wonderful way of facilitating classes. i took philosophy 101 with him, at a community college, so you can imagine that there were all kinds of, um, "interesting" people attending, with lots of wild, wonderful and often extremely woolly ideas, which they spat out with gusto. this prof had the lovely ability of patiently listening to the most hair-raising drivel, picking out from it the one little sentence that made sense and then exclaiming enthusiastically: "fabulous idea, mr. borschthead! now let's investigate this a little further" - and then bringing the class back on track. at any rate, at our little get-together for a coffee at starbucks last year i told him of my dream / idea / hope of writing my PhD thesis in novel form. the poor guy was aghast. novels, he snorted, have nothing to do with either science or philosophy. my attempts at pointing at dostoevsky, proust and camus were met with disdain. simple minded stuff, totally unthought-through. on the other hand, another philosophy prof with whom i had a series of absolutely delightful thought exchanges, was a catalyst in my writing my book of poetry. he, too, was not overly conversant with the convoluted thought patterns of creative forms of writing (why are poetry and prose called creative, by the way? are philosophic, scientific or business forms of writing, to name just a few, uncreative?) … where was i … ah, yes, not conversant with poetic thoughts - but he was curious about it and encouraged me to "translate" my poetry, which then became the theme for my tea table book. by the way, both of them let me play with my papers. i wrote one in the form of a play, and another as a letter from leibniz to freud. i'm still very grateful they indulged me. they weren't my most brilliant philosophical spewings but boy, was it fun. and of course i'm not exactly the first person to think about the connection between literature and philosophy. the good people from the university of tampere in finland (those europeans, ey?) have put together a whole bunch of links for between philosophy and poetry between philosophy and poetry examines the complex and controversial relation that has informed literary theory since ancient times: the difference between philosophy and poetry. the book explores three specific areas: the practice of writing with respect to orality; the interpretive modes of poetic and philosophical discourse as self-narration and historical understanding; how rhythm marks the differential spaces in poetry and philosophy. the book brings together some of the most prominent international scholars in the fields of philosophy and literature to examine the differences between orality and writing, the signs and traces of gender in writing, the historical dimension of the tension between philosophical and poetic language, and the future possibility of a musical thinking that would go beyond the opposition between philosophy and poetry. in the final instance, rhythm is the force to be reckoned with and is the essential element in an understanding of philosophy and poetry. rhythm in effect provides a musical ethics of philosophy, for musical thinking goes beyond the metaphysical opposition between philosophy and poetry and sets the frame for post-philosophical practice. journal of philosophy and literature philosophy and literature challenges the cant and pretensions of academic priesthoods by publishing an assortment of lively, wide-ranging essays, notes, and reviews that are written in clear, jargon-free prose. in his regular column, editor denis dutton targets the fashions and inanities of contemporary intellectual life. definitely sounds like something to check out.— change therapy
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