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On Friedrich and Britney, part III

When we left off with “On Friedrich and Britney, part II”, we asked a question about the connection between Nietzsche’s statement, “Without art we would be nothing but foreground,” and Shelley’s, “poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration”. The … Continue reading

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On Friedrich and Britney, part II

How does the art of which Nietzsche writes reveal the existence of something beyond foreground, the existence of texture? For that we must leave Freddy N for a moment and read a Briton who was somewhere on the continent some … Continue reading

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On Friedrich and Britney, Part I

Let’s leave law for a few days… “Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, … Continue reading

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