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Witchcraft isn't so much the objective fashioning of a reaction, as it is the inspired organisation of symbols for some mystic, indefinable, end. Rather than being subordinate to the artist, art is subordinate to the magian, and his occult quest.

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Started Nadja because of that, To-To, but I never finished Nadja. The most interesting part of it was the lucid intertextuality. Phillip Larkin and his Contemporaries Principles of Art Literature in Ireland I would like to understand the return to Romanticism that occurred in England, as well as understand what exactly magic craft is, and understand the history of literature in the Irish language.

I am not talking about Heidegger here and don't know why you are bringing that philosopher in to this. Yeats had developed the idea of public responsibility, shortly before meeting with Pound in Sussex, after becoming disillusioned with his previous approaches to verse. I was always talking about art in general. This comes from my reading of Collingwood. Saying things like "It's nowhere as simple as you think." is a cop-out; tell me how complex it is, if you think you can. These terms are general, obviously.

Techne means craft. Heidegger is not the only one who deals with the term. It was defined by the Greeks. It is in contrast to art, which did not exist, as a notion, until after Shakespeare. If you don't understand something about Yeats, why even bring it up? Yeats' middle period was one concerned with public responsibility in his art. Larkin was not following on from Modernism at all. He said he wanted to rescind the whole thing. The fact you think art and society are unconnected suggests more about yourself than I. Do you really think that the ideals of High Modernism emerging and dying at the same time as idiosyncratic political surges was coincidental?

Art which possesses neither public responsibility, nor aesthetic originality, is a very humble form of art. While for much of history, the concept of art did not yet exist, it is clear that there were works of art being produced. It may even be said that art came naturally to the rhapsodes who were later collectively referred to as Homer, when (initially) composing the lyrical interludes of the Iliad, and later making the whole poem lyrical. But these works necessarily laid emphasis on the side of themselves which were τέχνη, until the event of early Romanticism, as defined by Hamann and Herder, in opposition to Kant. It was not until Yeats' middle period that the idea of a unifying system of public responsibility (τέχνη) and aesthetic originality (art) became proper. Since the deaths of Eliot, Pound, Bunting, and others, High Modernism has been reacted against, by the humble Romanticism of gentlemen like Larkin (in England), and the Post-Modernist experiments of gentlemen like Ashbery (in America). My theory is that this is both caused by and contributing to the general downfall of our society, since verse used to, and no longer does, bother to influence society, in any meaningful manner. Until this idea has been revitalised, there may as well be no art at all, considering it simply stands as a kind of cask-monolith, pretending to do what it does not itself even understand.

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I think the abolition of classes, for instance, is futile, but think that the abolition of classISM is possible. If people understand themselves within the context of this, and work together in the context of this, they could rebuild a substantial sense of community.

The system as it currently is is what is harmful, as it does not provide anyone, personally or communally, with a genuine and fulfilling sense of selfhood.

If you keep changing policy, how can anything ever be truly achieved, in praxis? Instead of instant pleasure, I would opt for a system in which people have a sense of fulfilled selfhood, personally and communally.

Define "a while". I don't see how this would change anything. Also, why is it important to be contented? Surely there are a plethora of different reasons to live than one's personal pleasure.

Should we not just act in praxis, toward social utopia?

wieland und die deutsche nation deutsche geschichte das nibelungenlied tarr i am still learning about germany and would like to learn more about lewis

nadja - breton i was reading miéville, who references him

das niebelungenlied irish myth I would like to understand German and Irish culture.

the essential plotinus - elmer o'brien mysticism

theoretische werk - novalis eliade claims philosophy is superior to literature

basic writings - heidegger too long to explain why

murr - hoffmann i wanted to read another novel by an occultist