The Importance of Explanation in Art

I think the terms need to be clarified somewhat. I'm a teacher by trade. So imagine if I had to teach this book to somebody who didn't know Deliz well, like, what's the hook here? Like, what's in it for me? And I think the one thing that Deliz offers to us first is he gives us a different picture of the philosophical life like we're talking about. He takes from Proust that, let's see, some page 30 in the apprenticeship chapter, a work of art is worth more than a philosophical work. What is enveloped in the sign is more profound than all the explicit significations, right? The classical image of

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