...but I'm having trouble blogging about them today, since I have a lot of graduate and undergraduate work to grade. And I'm taking my daughter to see The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I always liked this installment as a novel—we'll see how it holds up in 3D (no less).
To my distress I've learned that very students can distinguish between a piece of Burke and a piece of Kant (on the sublime). This is crucial because the Burkean sublime is about authority and the Kantian sublime is about freedom. You know which one you prefer. Both are correlationist. But you know which one is modernity and which one is a feudal throwback that only David Cameron, some mounted police and the Shock and Awe bombing raiders believe in.
Maybe I need to hold some more classes on this—I thought I'd really drilled it into them (we spent at least two hours just on this alone).
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