Today I made a start with reading Ernst Bloch’s masterpiece in three volumes, Das Prinzip Hoffunun (1959)
After the introduction Bloch begins with the dreams and ideals of the adolescent. The seventeen years old lad who fantasizes about a date with the most beautiful girl in town.
Somehow it nicely fits with Aldous Huxley’s Crome Yellow (1922) and his [...]
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24 Nov 09
The sublime, which Edmund Burke examines in his major work A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) is one of the most intriguing terms in the field of aesthetic judgements. It suggests grandeur, vastness, awe and immense power when invoked to define the quality of a great literary or [...]
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