When I did an image-search for “sublime,” literally all I got for 16 pages were promo pics of the band Sublime, and this plate of enchiladas: Anyhow. * Sorry guys: I don’t think we can talk about Longinus without talking about fascism. Which is to say, I don’t think we can talk about the sublime [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Plato’
The Kind of Machine That Tragedy Is
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aristotle, Freud, Plato, mimesis, machines, tragedy, Greeks, universalization, truth, the Poetics, reverse-engineering, clerks, catharsis, Rene Girard, scapegoat theory, therapy, Marx on September 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last time, I explored Plato’s theory of art; this time, I’d like to focus on Aristotle, particularly the Poetics, and see how Aristotle’s thought lines up with that of his former teacher Plato. Plato has a tendency towards universalization that comes up again in the likes of Kant and Hegel; Aristotle tends to approach things [...]
Kicking Out the Poets
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aesthetics, art, city of pigs, Glaucon, GMA Grube, Homer, human nature (whatever that means), imitation, Milgram Experiment, mimesis, myrrh, Plato, poets, really awesome chairs, Socrates, Stanford Prison Experiment, techne, the Forms, The Republic, wreaths on September 9, 2011 | 9 Comments »
For my post-introduction aesthetics post, I wanted to talk some about Plato, and specifically whether and why the poets need to be kicked out of our ideal city. Originally I planned to cover Plato and Aristotle in one post, because Aristotle’s Poetics is often treated as a direct challenge or at least response to Plato’s [...]
Introduction/Aesthetics
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aesthetics, Aristotle, Big Other, British Empiricists, Edmund Burke, German Idealists, Gottlieb Baumgarten, Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, james tadd adcox, John Madera, Longinus, Martin Buber, Nicholas Brown, Plato, purposiveness, The Critique of Judgment, Walter Ben Michaels, Walter Benjamin on September 6, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Hi, Big Other. I’m new here, at least as a contributor. My name is James Tadd Adcox. I’m kind of an aesthetics geek. I’m planning, over the next several weeks, to present a series of posts on aesthetic theory, tracing a certain line of aesthetic thought from classical philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Longinus) through the British [...]
From the Barbaric Heart: Sufjan Stevens’ Vengeful Play
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Age of Adz, Beethoven, Jimi Hendrix, Nina Hagen, Plato, Plotinus, Romanticism, Shelley, Sufjan Stevens, sun ra, William Blake on April 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I was listening to Sufjan Stevens’ song “I Walked” on his new album The Age of Adz when it occurred to me how much in keeping his work is with the project of Romanticism. Like the Romantics, Sufjan is alienated from the values of the culture into which he happened to be born. He is [...]
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