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“[…] art and ideas come out of the passion and torment of experiences: it is impossible to have a real relationship to the first if one’s aim is to be protected from the second.”
scurry.bsky.social Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · Aug 4
Reading James Baldwin and every page seems to glitter with wisdom.
Extract from Balwin’s book reads: “I am not sure that the cultural level of the people is subject to a steady rise: in fact, quite unpredictable things happen when the bulk of the population attains what we think of as a high cultural level, e.g., pre-World War II Germany, or present-day Swe-den. And this, I think, is because the effort of a Schoenberg or a Picasso (or a William Faulkner or an Albert Camus) has nothing to do, at bottom, with physical comfort, or indeed with comfort of any other kind. But the aim of the people who rise to this high cultural level—who rise, that is, into the middle class—is precisely comfort for the body and the mind. The artistic objects by which they are surrounded cannot possibly fulfill their original function of disturbing the peace-which is still the only method by which the mind can be improved-they bear witness instead to the attainment of a certain level of economic stability and a certain thin measure of sophistication. But art and ideas come out of the passion and torment of experience: it is impossible to have a real relationship to the first if one's aim is to be protected from the second.”
August 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Humble and brilliant—a rare duo in male academic philosophy.
May 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Philosophical problems are puzzles. If some answers appear very straightforward and sufficient, chances are you haven't got the puzzle.
January 12, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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"This" is the first post.
January 11, 2025 at 6:25 AM