Something you're not likely to see from me again soon

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Mon Jun 4 08:34:44 PDT 2001


And sociology is an exercise in experience unencumbered by imagination . . . . Hey, W., don't read philosophy if you don't like to; it's not obligatory, but writing off whole traditions of human inquiry as second rate versions of something else is sort of dumb. --jks


>At 12:01 PM 6/3/01 -0400, Gordon wrote:
> >So maybe Heidegger should be considered as a poet _rather_than_ a
>philosopher.
> >But in that case, Rilke would be the reason to learn German.
>
>
>What?s the difference? Aren't these two but exercises in imagination
>unencumbered by experience? The main diffrence seems to be that philosphy
>is the refuge for those who cannot write good poetry.
>
>wojtek
>
>

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