a paroxysm as usual the antinomy of relativism and objective standards; criticism=crisis (find the DeMan quote); do the etats-unis have a literary culture per se; is the very idea of literary culture a conservative idea;
I don't know if you ever found the quote from DeMan-- "Even in its most naïve form, that of evaluation, the critical act is concerned with conformity to origin or specificity: when we say of art that it is good or bad, we are in fact judging a certain degree of conformity to an original intent called artistic. We imply that bad art is barely art at all; good art, on the contrary, comes close to our preconceived and implicit notion of what art ought to be. For that reason, the notion of crisis and criticism are very closely linked, so much so that one could state that all true criticism occurs in the mode of crisis." (Blindness and Insight, 8) That all true criticism occurs in crisis because in modes of crisis, we are questioning and forming whatever the original intent might be?
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I don't know if you ever found the quote from DeMan--
"Even in its most naïve form, that of evaluation, the critical act is concerned with conformity to origin or specificity: when we say of art that it is good or bad, we are in fact judging a certain degree of conformity to an original intent called artistic. We imply that bad art is barely art at all; good art, on the contrary, comes close to our preconceived and implicit notion of what art ought to be. For that reason, the notion of crisis and criticism are very closely linked, so much so that one could state that all true criticism occurs in the mode of crisis." (Blindness and Insight, 8) That all true criticism occurs in crisis because in modes of crisis, we are questioning and forming whatever the original intent might be?
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