UNAS 1106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Wallace Stevens, James Maritato, Friedrich Nietzsche
1 Mar 2017
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Lecture 14: only the poet can name the holy, o(cid:374)ce (cid:455)ou (cid:374)a(cid:373)e it, it"s (cid:374)ot hol(cid:455) a(cid:374)(cid:455)(cid:373)ore. It is this constant need to: ephebe youthful soldier on a journey, phoebus god of sun and poetry. Which means the old ways are dead: poet is responsible to make something new. Have something that is stripped of all of its incumbrances: first idea. Dialectic is always between appearance and reality. Kant divides reality into appearance and reality. Nothing is left of the king of kings ozymandias. Stevens is trying to suggest that the associations we have with names and associations. Roka is trying to shatter the image of what angels might be and these associations will turn. William james into dust: about the philosophy of religion. Way in which human beings name the objects that they have the will to believe. Point to or point at and imagine. Calculated risks: like pascal"s (cid:449)ager, fictions are calculated risks.
