From: Cari Machet (email suppressed)
Date: Thu May 03 2007 - 10:37:30 PDT
i cannot disagree loud enough
having someone else write about what someone else wrote
can be very akin to a game of telephone
it is not like they have distilled the texts
these texts are very rich
and 'you' have a brain - think for yourself
there is something called 'subjective'
what you bring to the table in terms of reading a text - experience in
general
is 'different'
it is very co-dependent to approach an entire subject in this manner
let alone one book
reading socrates or anything for yourself is VERY different than having some
academic
'decipher' the text for you
and
i find this way of "learning"
disgusting
c
On 5/3/07, Brook Hinton <email suppressed> wrote:
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> I'd advise starting with a collection/overview/history, something like
> the Routledge Companion to Aesthetics but there are plenty of others,
> rather than specific texts. Then move on to the writers/thinkers that
> inspire or are relevant for your purposes and fill in with recent work
> in the fields you're exploring. It's a pretty huge and varied field.
>
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