Hi Douglas - I am just wholly unsure what Chris means by "lyric". Or
by "the novel". A couple of specific examples of either - even if they
only point the way to a possibility - would simply clarify Chris's
problems for me. Given that no art, no matter how radical, is wholly
without precedent.
From your fave empiricist
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Douglas Barbour
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> Chris
>
> I cant say what the problem is for Alison, beyond wanting you to mention a
> novel or two, but for me, I admit, it's that I have read little if any Kant,
> & dont really care. So, I too wonder why, even with all the philosophical
> complexes that seem to have you trapped in a discourse that demands all
> these long non (?)-answers,you cant mention a couple of novels, maybe gay or
> feminist, that demonstrate this 'lyric' (novel) voice of which you speak?
>
> Doug
>
> Quoting "Christopher C Jones" <[log in to unmask]>:
>>
>> What you say, I should perhaps anticipate, and am giving it some
>> thought. Currently, the difficulty is that I am doing things which are
>> illegitimate and contravene Kantian moral law from a position in which I
>> am accused of doing that which I have not done. Given that I have
>> nothing to admit which implicates one in an acceptance of this moral
>> code, I become effectively silenced and without voice.
>>
>>
>
>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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