“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Monday, June 27, 2011

Summer School: Early Literary Theory 4



...featuring discussions of Aristotle, Horace, form, materialism, idealism, Darwin, object-oriented ontology, aesthetics, catharsis and a medium sized parrot called Fred (not really).

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