Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:26:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Matthew King <making-AT-yorku.ca>
Subject: RE: relations (external/internal)


On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Greg J. Seigworth wrote:

> And here we diverge a bit.  The whole notion that this third kind of
> knowledge is entirely given over to art (as if art doesn't have its own
> mystical elements [it's no mistake that Deleuze and Benjamin both loved
> Klee]), that wouldn't allow for a small aspect of this third kind of
> knowledge to trail out through some mystical routes [though, as both of us
> have been saying all along, this mysticism has nothing at all to do with
> 'elfquests'], closes off some potentials I'd say.

See also Nietzsche, _Ecce Homo_, on poetic inspiration:  "If one had the
slightest residue of superstition left in one's system, one could hardly
reject altogether the idea that one is merely incarnation, merely
mouthpiece, merely a medium of overpowering forces.  The concept of
revelation--in the sense that suddenly, with indescribable certainty and
subtlety, something becomes *visible*, audible, something that shakes one
to the last depths and throws one down--that merely describes the facts.
One hears, one does not seek; one accepts, one does not ask who gives;
like lightning, a thought flashes up [cf. Heidegger, "The Turning"]....
Everything happens involuntarily in the highest degree but as in a gale of
freedom, of absoluteness, of power, of divinity."  The initial "if" is
ambiguous, of course, but the note of longing is clear.  The madman
*seeks* God....

Matthew

 ---Matthew A. King---Department of Philosophy---York University, Toronto---
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