Author: be_DESIGN
When talking, there is usually so little spirit that one has to stick to what is printed.
Although already formulated in the 18th century, this insight remains virulent to this day. The writer, translator, politically engaged and clever salonnière must have known it. As is well known, all women of the time were denied access to libraries, … Weiterlesen
Tar = Rat
“Spectacle of the mundane”
This perception is missing in everyday discourse and even more so in the academic one. People are always looking for the extraordinary – but, at best, this is only good enough for small talk or will be misleading because the … Weiterlesen
heat – hate
If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.
Is it a cautious or, on the contrary, particularly happy phrasing? In favor of the first assessment is the fact that anticipation may generate certainty, but the true redemption of happiness is not yet guaranteed. And thus it remains with … Weiterlesen
shoe – hose
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
A representative of German romanticism, Novalis criticizes the Enlightenment by classifying its rationalism as hurtful and juxtaposing reason with art, with aesthetics. An art form made of words, but of other words than those spelled out by reason that thinks … Weiterlesen
right – girth
Each epoch has its attitude, its gaze and its smile.
A precise critique of the peculiarly unhistorical way of thinking exhibited by many historians and other scientists.
We can easily see that each epoch developed (develops) its specific attitudes and fashions, and, what’s more, the respective present defines how we … Weiterlesen