recently came across a blog that i'll check frequently: http://transcendentalenquiries.blogspot.com/
nice blog about music and philosophy and the bridge between the two.
check out the preface!
i would like to scribble this on a note card to stash in my pocket so i can pull it out on those instances when i worry that i'm becoming prime meat for Jesus campers with these "unexplained" notions of connectedness and also to throw back at taylor when she tells me (that she loves it that) i'm a new age hippie when really i'm just an elevated nihilist. THERE IS A REALLY BIG DIFF!
Intellectually, our times are haunted by a false opposition: we're offered the choice between religious transcendence and the liberal culture of immanence. As such, on the one hand, the transgression of immanence from within is made suspect in favour a religious communitarianism; on the other hand, the idea of transcendence is refuted as part of a backward religious metaphysics.This site looks for places in contemporary culture which open up a domain of transcendence within immanence (some kind of 'introscendence'). The metaphysics involved can be purely secular, for the nexus is the human subject as transcendental, as split between the phenomenal realm of the particular and the noumenal realm of the universal. Next to the exploration of these cultural sites, I will also focus explicitly on epistemological and philosophical-antropological topics, for I do not believe that both spheres (of the concrete-existential and the abstract-philosophical) can be fully separated (although they have indeed their own method and logic).
seeing the praise for Valet on this blog reminded me that i need to send Brian and Stacie a "hello" card.
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