Alison comes very close here to my arguments with Nietzsche's body
idealism and especially the Romantic cut of the Eternal Return we
inherit from Heidegger and most recently the metaphysicians Deleuze and
Badiou who all rely on the weak question of what a body can do inherited
from Spinoza. Kant don't stand a chance in this line-up. (In terms of
the history of philosophy it would still be correct to say that Deleuze
is the most important philosopher since Kant. But what a weak and sickly
history of the body is this. What sickness is philosophy!)
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 10:04 +1100, Alison Croggon wrote:
> My feeling is that people write poems, and people have bodies. We all
> abstract the desire to write in different ways (muse, language,
> whatever) but however we abstract those mysterious and largely
> untraceable processes of our minds, the rhythms are physical, are
> heard in the ear, felt in the body, said with the lips and tongue and
> palate and larynx and breath. The body, after all, is inhabited by
> many intelligences.
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