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Month: December 2021

On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry.

Posted on December 13, 2021December 14, 2021

In his book On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry, Friedrich Schiller made a distinction between ‘naive’ and ‘sentimental’ poets. Schiller’s categorization is not about the poetry itself, the themes within the poems, or the content, but about the poets themselves. He views them as contrasting personalities who represent two opposing sides of creativity like Kant’s antinomies.  If you’ve heard this before, you’ll…

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What does Orwellian mean?

Posted on December 6, 2021December 6, 2021

Another entry on the site explores the term Kafkaesque. I now want to spend some time with something else mentioned within that post, which is Orwellian. It’s a label with which many of you are probably familiar, but, like Kafkaesque, it can be misused, especially to make a rash and unfocused politically charged point. So let’s…

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