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Subject: [AE] IP LAF |15 MAY TALK: "The Inner Paradise:
Philosophy-Poetry Warfare In Milton's Paradise Lost"
London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy)
Wednesday 15th May 2013
16.00 - 18.00 | Senate House, Senate Room
Malet Street London, WC1E 7HU
Tzachi Zamir (HUJI)
"The Inner Paradise: Philosophy-Poetry Warfare
In Milton's Paradise Lost"
Recent attempts within Anglo-American aesthetics to delineate
an intellectually fruitful relationship between philosophy and
literature are usually proposed as compensatory epistemologies:
literature overcomes limitations built into the traditional
modes whereby philosophers construe knowledge- claims. But what
if a major work of literaturebas is the case in John Miltonbs Paradise
Lostbexplicitly rejects philosophybs objectives, holding
that philosophy is implicated in the pursuit of a corrupt and
unworthy form of knowing? From such a stance, philosophybs
shortcoming is b ironically b philosophical: if one genuinely
seeks understanding, philosophy would send one down the wrong
track. Poetry of such kind does not invite philosophers of
literature to somehow harmonize the philosophy-literature
divide. Instead, one is required to sharpen the
philosophy-poetry disjunction, clarifying the stakes involved in
keeping apart these distinct attitudes to acquiring knowledge,
to leading a meaningful existence, and to the non-obvious
relationships between these objectives..
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