Logocentrism in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria

[@Wisdomtree0123]

Very well defined lectures. I'm glad to be a part of this highly informative journey. Thank you for recording & uploading it.

[@TheLookingGlassAU]

By saying "all good poetry is an outpouring of feeling". Is that a form of the "no true Scotsman" fallacy. The last time I remember being apoplectic I found I had less words coming to my mind, not more. :) If I define poetry so subjectively aren't I assuming for myself more power? I notice the modern critical theorists do this also, define things in such a way to assume a power over it that they alone have; to create a type of cabal over a field of study.

[@tychonian]

Have I correctly understood that "progressiveness" or "geist" in this context refers to the "liberation from the phenomenological"? As in "the sun may seem to move, but _actually_...", "Logic may seem to work...", "Man may seem to be special...", "Man may seem to have a soul...", "There may seem to be two genders...", "Language may seem to be meaningful..." - "but _actually_...." ? If so, I suppose what makes Shakespeare a "progressive poet" are things such as Hamlet's "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"?

[@LitProf]

The character of Hamlet expresses the view of that character in that play. It isn’t Shakespeare’s worldview. However it is the modern academy’s view.

[@jimsteele9559]

Derrida is just a trouble maker. Stick with Derrida and end up with aporia or a pile of meaningless garbage. The Canadian show “Slings and Arrows “ treats Shakespeare characters as more than just signs and signifyers. They are evoking Barth but isn’t he just another destroyer? In other words the creator of Slings and Arrows is not a deconstrucionist. I could be wrong.