I have been away and now find too much reappointed material out
there to respond outwardly for the moment. But glad Keston's very
interesting post has gone on being supplemented, mainly from its
origin. Any talk of "scarcity" always attracts me, and
"disappointment reenables rarity" once again charges up that term
so much mutates around. Most of the thought (which
i haven't yet absorbed) seems to centre on aesthetic disappointment,
whereas for me it was the captured field of compunction as
disappointment which set things going. What are the ethics of
disappointment etc? Must look again at what you say here, though I
see that you find that aspect less intriguing yourself. The
aesthetics of disappointment (where the discussion seems to have got)
breeds sound but well exercised paradoxes, but disappointment as an
aspect of ethics seems to bring in a genuine foreign term, not a
question of attuning expectation, but of whether remorse can afford
any such supplement and function as such, even though that supplement
may also be its origin. Remorse presumably should subvert its hurt
that sin doesn't pay, or is no higher fun, otherwise it disappoints
itself. Perhaps disappointment refuses ever to be completely ethical
and points to an insufficiency or scarcity of the corrective vision
of the latter. But now we are back in the environs of a term of
excess which readily aestheticises. Does that leave us with a
polarity, an aesthetics of excess as one combinable tread, and an
ethics of scarcity as the other?
Peter
Peter Larkin
Philosophy & Literature Librarian
University of Warwick Library
Coventry CV4 7AL UK
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