Hey Arlo, I envy your ability to have time to read Nietzsche. I wish I did.
I think centering on Nietzsche as carving out a conceptual space that is similar to the conceptual space that Pirsig would later try to carve out is an important direction in comparative, intellectual-historical analysis. When I was assigned ZMM in Phil 101, my professor ran very successfully the parallel between Nietzsche's Apollonian/Dionysian and Pirsig's early classic/romantic split. Since Nietzsche was working in a post-Hegelian intellectual world, I think it would be interesting to compare the cultural stories Hegel, Nietzsche, and Pirsig tell in trying to explain how we got to where we are. Because all three think that story-telling is an important piece of our intellectual armament as far as figuring out how to move forward. And all three were reacting to directly to Kant. But there are significant differences between them, and it would help clarify Pirsig's position in cultural history to see how it was different than his predecessors. (And to tell the story really well, one might look at Nietzsche's Genealogy, especially, say, Book 2 sec. 17 and 18, where _form_ is taken to be artist created and _violent_.) Good show, Arlo. Matt Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
