Philosophize This! Episode #176 ... Susan Sontag - Do you criticize yourself the way you criticize a movie?
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Mar 1, 2023 Explore Susan Sontag's provocative ideas on art and critique. The discussion challenges the dominance of psychological analysis, urging listeners to rethink how they evaluate emotions and art. Delve into the importance of immediate experiences over theoretical interpretations. By focusing on form and style, discover how cultivating deeper emotional connections can enrich personal growth and appreciation for art.
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Experience Analysis
- Overanalyzing experiences creates distance and hinders true engagement.
- This modern tendency promotes domination through analysis, prioritizing understanding over feeling.
Modernity and Experience
- Modernity emphasizes dominating experiences through analysis and categorization.
- This creates distance, treating experiences as external and depreciating their value.
Alienation from Experience
- Constant analysis leads to self-alienation, viewing experiences as predictable.
- This can cause us to talk about ourselves in the third person, detaching from our true feelings.