“…[the]inquiring scientific spirit how it destroyed the myth, and how that destruction uprooted poetry from its natural, ideal soil, leaving it homeless.” Nietzsche (BT P82)
Monday, 13 February 2012
Monday, 6 February 2012
Nietzsche - Science
“…great and universally minded spirits have,…used the armoury of science to lay bare the limitations and determinations of knowledge, and thus have decisively negated the claims of science to universal validity and universal goals….they have revealed the delusion…which imagines it can explain the innermost essence of things."
Nietzsche BT P87
Monday, 30 January 2012
Nietzsche
Nietzsche argues that we need “...to see science under the lens of the artist, but art under the lens of life.”
Monday, 23 January 2012
Nietzsche - on the Greeks
“The Greeks as interpreters: When we speak of the Greeks we involuntary speak of today and yesterday; their universally known history is a polished mirror which always reflects something that is not in the mirror itself. We take advantage of the freedom to speak about them in order to be silent about other things - so that these Greeks might themselves whisper something in the ear of the thoughtful reader. Thus for modern man the Greeks facilitate the communication of many things which are difficult or hazardous to communicate.”
Nietzsche
Monday, 16 January 2012
Monday, 9 January 2012
Jacques Derrida
“…no degree of progress allows one to ignore that never before, in absolute figures, have so many men, women and children been subjugated, starved or exterminated on the Earth.”
Jacques Derrida
Monday, 2 January 2012
Lyotard. The Post Modern Condition
“…A work can only become modern if it is first post-modern. Post-modernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent [starting] state, and this is constant.”
Lyotard. The Post Modern Condition (1979)
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