In 1995,David Chalmers published in Scientific American Revue his famous essay called“The Puzzle of Conscious Experience”,where he analyses the hard and easy problems of consciousness,and objected at the same time a...In 1995,David Chalmers published in Scientific American Revue his famous essay called“The Puzzle of Conscious Experience”,where he analyses the hard and easy problems of consciousness,and objected at the same time against the“esoteric”that claim to be impossible understand consciousness.In fact,Chalmers is just presenting a position that became known from the works of Colin McGinn(The Problem of Consciousness,1991)and Owen Flanagan(The Science of the Mind,1991)as the“New Mysterianism”.According to this philosophical position,the hard problem of consciousness cannot be solved by humans(it is impossible to explain the existence of qualia).Although esotericism may refer to an exploration of the hidden meanings and symbolism in various philosophical,historical,and religious texts,the new mysterianism is however nothing more than a profound paradox,since there is no knowledge to preserve or meanings to discover.However,if this argument is true,then the esotericism is wrong.The purpose will discuss this topic through the philosophical literature produce in the last years.展开更多
Cecily Swanson argues that“modernism's Gurdjieff craze in fact played a surprising role in the development of an overlooked canon of popular autobiographies:Muriel Draper's memoir,Music at Midnight;Margaret A...Cecily Swanson argues that“modernism's Gurdjieff craze in fact played a surprising role in the development of an overlooked canon of popular autobiographies:Muriel Draper's memoir,Music at Midnight;Margaret Anderson's memoir,My Thirty Years'War;and Kathryn Hulme's autobiographical novel,We Lived As Children.”Swanson reads Draper,Anderson,and Hulme because they wrote as esotericists,while she divorces the memoirs from any overt esoteric influences,contents,or aesthetics.There is no need to search further for the source of the mode of the popular autobiographies by Anderson and Draper than what of Loos's novel comes through the Peggy Hopkins Joyce/Zora Neale Hurston memoir.Marriage,Men,and Me appears near the commencement of a line of esoteric memoirs that becomes visible in the best-selling works by Draper and Anderson but then continues expansively.展开更多
Like the other“new modernisms”Afro-Modernism does not exist beyond its role as a critical catchword.The readings given to African-American texts of the modernist period have been subjected to reductive treatments th...Like the other“new modernisms”Afro-Modernism does not exist beyond its role as a critical catchword.The readings given to African-American texts of the modernist period have been subjected to reductive treatments that have overlooked many factors.In this paper I will examine an unacknowledged feature of modernist works that radically changes the understanding of many important texts.One assumption of the critics of literary modernism is that individualism is a touchstone of the movement.One sign of the inapplicability of individuality to American modernism is the occurrence of esoteric group composition.The esoteric does not come into consideration by the literary critics who have established Afro-Modernism,so it is not within the scope of those investigations that challenges to individuality have been considered.展开更多
文摘In 1995,David Chalmers published in Scientific American Revue his famous essay called“The Puzzle of Conscious Experience”,where he analyses the hard and easy problems of consciousness,and objected at the same time against the“esoteric”that claim to be impossible understand consciousness.In fact,Chalmers is just presenting a position that became known from the works of Colin McGinn(The Problem of Consciousness,1991)and Owen Flanagan(The Science of the Mind,1991)as the“New Mysterianism”.According to this philosophical position,the hard problem of consciousness cannot be solved by humans(it is impossible to explain the existence of qualia).Although esotericism may refer to an exploration of the hidden meanings and symbolism in various philosophical,historical,and religious texts,the new mysterianism is however nothing more than a profound paradox,since there is no knowledge to preserve or meanings to discover.However,if this argument is true,then the esotericism is wrong.The purpose will discuss this topic through the philosophical literature produce in the last years.
文摘Cecily Swanson argues that“modernism's Gurdjieff craze in fact played a surprising role in the development of an overlooked canon of popular autobiographies:Muriel Draper's memoir,Music at Midnight;Margaret Anderson's memoir,My Thirty Years'War;and Kathryn Hulme's autobiographical novel,We Lived As Children.”Swanson reads Draper,Anderson,and Hulme because they wrote as esotericists,while she divorces the memoirs from any overt esoteric influences,contents,or aesthetics.There is no need to search further for the source of the mode of the popular autobiographies by Anderson and Draper than what of Loos's novel comes through the Peggy Hopkins Joyce/Zora Neale Hurston memoir.Marriage,Men,and Me appears near the commencement of a line of esoteric memoirs that becomes visible in the best-selling works by Draper and Anderson but then continues expansively.
文摘Like the other“new modernisms”Afro-Modernism does not exist beyond its role as a critical catchword.The readings given to African-American texts of the modernist period have been subjected to reductive treatments that have overlooked many factors.In this paper I will examine an unacknowledged feature of modernist works that radically changes the understanding of many important texts.One assumption of the critics of literary modernism is that individualism is a touchstone of the movement.One sign of the inapplicability of individuality to American modernism is the occurrence of esoteric group composition.The esoteric does not come into consideration by the literary critics who have established Afro-Modernism,so it is not within the scope of those investigations that challenges to individuality have been considered.
