From: Cari Machet (email suppressed)
Date: Thu May 03 2007 - 21:30:01 PDT
as usual freya you are amazing
c
On 5/3/07, Freya <email suppressed> wrote:
>
> I think Brook is just suggesting that the book,
> the Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, is a good
> starting point for finding out about other texts that
> might be intresting to you which you could then go and
> explore for real! In this way finding out about which
> books might be especially exciting to you personally.
> Of course you might miss out on intresting stuff
> because someone made it sound disintresting when
> actually it's really exciting and just your thing!
>
> I guess it depends a bit on if it ends up being the
> gateway to other stuff or the gatekeeper!
>
> I'm not sure he was suggesting you should skip the
> actual texts, and I do kind of know what you mean
> about the actual texts although I personally found the
> wikipedia entry on Kant a great help in slowly coming
> to an understanding of what Kant was saying, I also
> found that reading the actual text helped me to
> understand what I thought he was meaning and to draw
> my own conclusions about what he was meaning. It's
> better that way too because you can then discuss your
> own opinions on Kant with someone as opposed to only
> knowing what someone else said about him.
>
> Actually I found it quite helpful to have someone else
> to sit down with and to discuss what we both felt the
> texts meant and our conclusions from them! Of course
> finding someone to do that with you might be hard. :(
>
> Speaking of Kant theres some texts by him and all
> kinds of other related documents right here on the
> internet!
>
> Heres one good jumping off point:
>
> http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/kant.htm
>
> One thing I know for certain is that it's really good
> to have a water supply! I've just been 4 days without
> water and the workmen have just fixed the problem,
> although the street now looks like it has been invaded
> by giant mutant moles.
>
> It's hard to be worried about Kant when you don't have
> water. ;)
>
> love
>
> Freya
>
> *waving her hands in the air like she just don't
> care*
>
>
> --- Cari Machet <email suppressed> wrote:
>
> > i cannot disagree loud enough
> > having someone else write about what someone else
> > wrote
> > can be very akin to a game of telephone
> > it is not like they have distilled the texts
> > these texts are very rich
> > and 'you' have a brain - think for yourself
> > there is something called 'subjective'
> > what you bring to the table in terms of reading a
> > text - experience in
> > general
> > is 'different'
> > it is very co-dependent to approach an entire
> > subject in this manner
> > let alone one book
> > reading socrates or anything for yourself is VERY
> > different than having some
> > academic
> > 'decipher' the text for you
> > and
> > i find this way of "learning"
> > disgusting
> >
> > c
> >
> >
> > On 5/3/07, Brook Hinton <email suppressed> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'd advise starting with a
> > collection/overview/history, something like
> > > the Routledge Companion to Aesthetics but there
> > are plenty of others,
> > > rather than specific texts. Then move on to the
> > writers/thinkers that
> > > inspire or are relevant for your purposes and fill
> > in with recent work
> > > in the fields you're exploring. It's a pretty huge
> > and varied field.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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