Landy: Philsophy as Fiction [5: art]
citation of Proust: “through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves [sortir de nous]” (TR 299) see also 169n40
music “does not communicate an independently existing ‘divine world’ which composers visit from time to time (S 498), but neither is it merely an elegant ornamental design (C 206-7, 259): instead design, in music as in art more generally, serves to convey an immanent world which is the soul of the individual artist (C 339-40, 508; cf. EA 365)” (Landy: 176n74)
as an example of Marcel’s antithetical views, Landy writes, “Marcel seems unable to decide [view of homosexuality], and changes his mind with the space of a single sentence: ‘This scene was not, however, positively comic; it was stamped with a strangeness, or it you like a naturalness, the beauty of which steadily increased’ (SG 6) [Landy 34, his emphasis) Presumably, Landy assumes that there is something antithetical about the tri-partite relation of strange, natural and beauty. “Strange” seems really to be the problematic element, but does it really oppose natural? Does it really oppose beautiful? In his experience of art, it is art’s ability to defeat habitual worldview, to in effect make things strange, that constitutes its aesthetic value, and thus its beauty.
“ ‘genius consisting in reflecting power and not in the intrinsic quality of the scene reflected’ (BG 176; cf. PM 201).” (115)
music “does not communicate an independently existing ‘divine world’ which composers visit from time to time (S 498), but neither is it merely an elegant ornamental design (C 206-7, 259): instead design, in music as in art more generally, serves to convey an immanent world which is the soul of the individual artist (C 339-40, 508; cf. EA 365)” (Landy: 176n74)
as an example of Marcel’s antithetical views, Landy writes, “Marcel seems unable to decide [view of homosexuality], and changes his mind with the space of a single sentence: ‘This scene was not, however, positively comic; it was stamped with a strangeness, or it you like a naturalness, the beauty of which steadily increased’ (SG 6) [Landy 34, his emphasis) Presumably, Landy assumes that there is something antithetical about the tri-partite relation of strange, natural and beauty. “Strange” seems really to be the problematic element, but does it really oppose natural? Does it really oppose beautiful? In his experience of art, it is art’s ability to defeat habitual worldview, to in effect make things strange, that constitutes its aesthetic value, and thus its beauty.
“ ‘genius consisting in reflecting power and not in the intrinsic quality of the scene reflected’ (BG 176; cf. PM 201).” (115)
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