ENGL 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Simile, Immanuel Kant, Elaine Scarry
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Phenomena that happened in holland in the late 1630s. In holland, land is scarce, largely man-made, and monotonous (p. 85) Tulip price speculaion(on how beauiful the tulips would be) Coincided with the beginnings of modern inance(early experiment in paper speculaive economics) People were invesing in tulips: at some point, it cost more than a house. One day, it all stopped, and people lost a lot. In contrast to other lowers, the tulip was very pure , unlike other lowers. Doesn"t relate to our physical desires : but it doesn"t necessarily relate to pollan"s theory. Jan breughel: an allegory of tulipomania: condemning the acions of the people in tulipomania. But this isn"t what pollan is trying to say. He"s trying to capture a sense of sill life. There is something about that that deies and disrupts what it means to be human rather than something else. Review: what is the meaning of a lower , stories:
