October 2011
12 posts
Kierkegaard on The Individual
If one would describe the confusion of the modern age, I know of no more descriptive word than: it is dishonest. Young people, even children, are aware of how fraudulent everything is and how everything depends on clinging to their generation, following the inconstant demands of the age. Thus the life of each generation hisses and fizzes uninterruptedly. Although everything is a whirlwind, a...
Art as Experience. John Dewey
Objects that were in the past valid and significant because of their place in the life of a community now function in isolation from the conditions of their origin. By that they are also set apart from common experience, and serve as insignia of taste and certificates of special culture.
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How is it that the everyday making of things grows into that form of making which is genuinely...
