Erminia:
>Always> Who places the intention and who disperses it? All happens within
>the one polysemic thing (which is by definition One, Everybody, and None)
>then? The wawing tree the one mind, the neo-plotinian concurrence of the
>many in the One? The neo-Plotinian idea of emanation is postmodernity,
>after all>? The multiplicity in the one polymorphic mind is no mind? ‘All
>question for the ghost of Yeats.’ Is this what Yeats wanted to say>?
This bothers me. To start with, I've always
doubted the utility of such labels as
'modernity', 'postmodernity' and the like, except
as useful abstract prostheses, obviating the need
to encounter anything more specific. But I accept
that as being, perhaps, simply a personal phobia
on my part.
When you get to neo-Platonic emanation being
postmodernity, and end up tossing Yeats into the
mix, I fear we're entering that night in which
all cows are black, if you'll forgive my Hegel. I
see the One looming, but I miss my Many!
Trevor
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