Literature, Film, and Philosophy with Dr. Robert Pippin (Chasing Leviathan)

[@JSwift-jq3wn]

Drivel. He is lost in trivial irrelevant details

[@ChasingLeviathan]

That's a strong opinion. What do you think are the relevant particulars?

[@JSwift-jq3wn]

@@ChasingLeviathan Hegel is an embecil. He talks of the Divine as the task of art. "Die Aufgabe der Kunst ist das Göttliche." But, the stupid clown cannot go any further. I say art is worship of nature. It is the primitive man's religion. Hegel misunderstood Plato and the ignorant sharlatan, Marx, misunderstood Hegel. Joseph Görres, Romantic writer and thinker, has the best definition of history: "the primitive man is a somnambulist, who is hypnotized by nature. The task of history is to awaken this sleepwalker from his hypnotic sleep." Notice how close this is to enlightenment. Now, I say that the purpose/task of art is to return the historically rational conscious man back to his natural hypnotic sleep condition, at least temporarily. Man cannot live just a rational life. He needs the irrational

[@s.lazarus]

Rude and obnoxious comment.

[@bertiemarshall3391]

The interviewer thought Douglas sirk was a writer….yikes!

[@ChasingLeviathan]

To be fair, Sirk's work was 30-50 years before I was born. 😂