Re: [-empyre-] Vor dem Gesetz/Before the Law, hoveringly

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear All, Taking up Johannes' extensions of the questions (below), let me do a wee bit of back and fill. Antonio Damasio in /Descartes' Error/ (1994) tells the story of a judge who gave up judging after suffering neurological

Re: [-empyre-] Vor dem Gesetz/Before the Law, hoveringly

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, Christina Spiesel wrote: This is a long introduction to a simple thought: we need the arts to come to the rescue. I keep thinking of the art teacher in (Teresin?) who taught the interned young very advanced

Re: [-empyre-] Vor dem Gesetz/Before the Law, hoveringly

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear All -- I have been writing about education in the arts/humanities as critical in resisting technocratic culture's limited interest in human capacity. So I see cultural production. and not just education about it, as a form of

Re: [-empyre-] Vor dem Gesetz/Before the Law, hoveringly

--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Johannes my answer was not resigned at all (I am not the kind of resigned people :) but wondered if our dilemma was not a typical dilemma risen from Modernity, to make Humanity happier and more enlightened with the help of education,