from hyperion fb, its an excerpt from Gilles Deleuze, Desert Island Texts. i omitted the 1st paragraph:
Admiration & Genuine Critique
Wed at 2:06pm
“When you’re facing such a work of genius, there’s no point saying you disagree. First you have to know how to admire; you have to rediscover the problems [a thinker] poses, his particular machinery. It is through admiration that you will come to genuine critique. The mania of people today is not knowing how to admire anything; either they’re “against,” or they situate everything at their own level while they chit-chat and scrutinize. That’s no way to go about it. You have to work your way back to those problems which an author of genius has posed, all the way back to that which he does not say in what he says, in order to extract something that still belongs to him, though you also turn it against him. You have to be inspired, visited by the geniuses you denounce."
against those who would mutilate and mortify it. For me, that is philosophy itself."
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Admiration & Genuine Critique
Wed at 2:06pm
“When you’re facing such a work of genius, there’s no point saying you disagree. First you have to know how to admire; you have to rediscover the problems [a thinker] poses, his particular machinery. It is through admiration that you will come to genuine critique. The mania of people today is not knowing how to admire anything; either they’re “against,” or they situate everything at their own level while they chit-chat and scrutinize. That’s no way to go about it. You have to work your way back to those problems which an author of genius has posed, all the way back to that which he does not say in what he says, in order to extract something that still belongs to him, though you also turn it against him. You have to be inspired, visited by the geniuses you denounce." against those who would mutilate and mortify it. For me, that is philosophy itself."
- bill 4-09-2010 12:21 pm