Klarinet Archive - Posting 000234.txt from 2004/07

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] OT: article from Hudson Review - link
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:15:01 -0400

On 5 Jul, "Patricia A. Smith" <arlyss1@-----.net> wrote:

> Considering his extensive postings (from which I've learned so very
> much!), I felt Tony Pay as well as several other people on the list
> might enjoy taking a look at this fairly recent article from the Hudson
> Review:
>
> http://www.hudsonreview.com/GrosholzWi04.html
>
> It is entitled, for the curious, "Jean Starobinski's History of
> 'Reaction': The Uses and Dangers of Metaphorical Language", and was
> written by Emily Grosholz, philosopher and poet.

Mm, interesting, thanks. It looks like a very useful history of how the
success of 'mechanics' has influenced our thought processes adversely.

An attempt to characterise the necessary alternative metaphor to the
'mechanical' metaphor (and a statement of the need to have both that metaphor
and the 'mechanical' metaphor available in order to think rightly), is to be
found here:

http://www.rawpaint.com/library/bateson/formsubstancedifference.html

I've posted that one before.

Tony
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