The Problem of Meaning in Human Agency or Art
Does art mean anything? Let us be precise from the outset about terms. Art stands traditionally as a counterpart of nature.[1] When Shakespeare has Hamlet spell out…
Does art mean anything? Let us be precise from the outset about terms. Art stands traditionally as a counterpart of nature.[1] When Shakespeare has Hamlet spell out…
For both William Desmond and Eric Voegelin, Plato’s concept of the metaxu or metaxy is of paramount importance. Described by Plato in the Symposium and other works,…
Our stark choice is indeed as Nietzsche puts it, says René Girard. It is a choice between Dionysus and the Crucified: between the Biblical concern for the…
Consider a famous question asked at dinner parties: If you were stranded on a desert island and had only one book, what book would that be? The…
The aim of this article is to propose the notion that the spoudaios, spoudaic potential, and the spoudaic spectrum are constantly recurring figures in literary texts in…
Hamlet is a play so rich in insight regarding human existence, so revelatory and reverberative, that Harold Bloom is justified in calling it a “poem unlimited."[1][2] All…
1 Polonius commends a visiting troupe of players as “The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, [tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral,]” (II,ii,396-99).[1] We…