Subject: Re: Moviegoer and despair
From: Ted B Atkinson (tatkin2@UNIX1.SNCC.LSU.EDU)
Date: Mon Nov 15 1999 - 11:37:17 EST
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Marshall Smith wrote:
> To Ken Armstrong:
>
> I took that to mean the despair experienced (or not experienced) by an
> individual who exists in what Kierkegaard described as the aesthetic stage of
> life.
>
>
>
> Marshall Smith
>
To Ken Armstrong:
Kierkegaard's aesthetic stage, mentioned in a posting prior to mine, is
indeed what I had in mind. Thus despair in the aesthetic stage is felt,
I think, but not understood in any tangible way. Binx has moved beyond
this stage because he has begun to question the nature of despair. As for
the Leeza Gibbons analogy, I think the viewer is better off (depending, of
course, on whether one prefers consciousness to oblivion) by virtue of
the fact that he or she is aware of the despair. I brought up Leeza as
kind of a nod to Percy's treatment of Phil Donahue in _Lost in the
Cosmos_. Percy would surely be intrigued by the current volume of T.V.
talk and the despair that it attends.
Best,
Ted Atkinson
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