The pendulum is swinging: post-rationalists around the world are racing wildly towards aesthetics, intuition, and spiritualityhttps://twitter.com/nwilliams030/status/1215778245372710912 …
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more often than people who adhere too strongly to any other ideology that lacks balance and empathy?
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To add some historic context to his point, aesthetics can be used as a stalking horse for very nasty politics, as seen with D'Annunzio and his counterparts within Italian Futurism as an example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_D%27Annunzio …
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Very nasty politics doesn't require aesthetic drive to happen. Nor does it follow that aesthetic drive necessarily leads to very nasty politics.
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There's a great autobiographical Rorty essay where he riffs on the lack of unity between ethics and aesthetics, with heavy emphasis to Nabokov's Lolita
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pls link
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I would be curious to know why you believe this.
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Aesthetics are the ethics of last resort
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