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- The history of subjectivity by This Blog Will Change the World on Oct 24, 2009
Part V of an occasional series.In a series of posts over the life of this blog, I've attempted to come to grips with the way we write about music history, and why it's usually so awful. One is forced to choose between two versions of Whig historiogra...
- Postmodernism and liturgy by This Blog Will Change the World on Oct 15, 2009
In my previous post, I discussed an irritating and silly philosophical mistake made by a lot of people who ought to know better. Yes, our impressions of the world around us are dependent upon our idiosyncratic viewpoints as individuals; no, this does...
- Postmodernism and the work-concept by This Blog Will Change the World on Oct 14, 2009
The central insight of postmodernism is that there is no privileged standpoint from which we can know any subject perfectly. All of our perceptions are coloured by our individual perceptual habits, our particular life experiences, our everyday heuris...
- The road to incoherence by This Blog Will Change the World on Jul 30, 2009
I've recently endorsed the neo-Thomistic philosophy of Jacques Maritain, whose "Art and Scholasticism" extends the theories of the mediaeval schoolmen to the study of aesthetics. For scholastic philosophers, the realm of aesthetics encompasses not on...
