Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:06:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Langston <dlangsto-AT-mcla.mass.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: The classical, the romantic



On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, George Y. Trail wrote:

> When the relationship between subject and object becomes so
> problematized that we can entertain the notion that the distinction
> itself is specious we are up to our armpits in the problematics
> inherited from the Romanticism from which there is no recovery. 

Yes, I share that opinion; it nicely captures the tenor of post-Kantian
aesthetics (which includes more people than it excludes).

I further suppose that you would not disagree that philosophies or poetics
which envision the mutual entailment of subject and object are no less
"epistemologies" than positions which begin by assuming those two elements
as ineradicably distinct....or are you reserving the term for
"philosophies of the subject" only?

David Langston




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