Showing posts with label joseph conrad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label joseph conrad. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

THE DOMAIN GAME PT. 2

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As stated in Part 1, the term "domains" can apply to any number of the multifarious principles, or groups of principles, that I...
Monday, April 1, 2013

RUDOLF, MEET THEODORE

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...[Rudolf Otto] explains the numinous experience in terms of the *mysterium tremendum,* the overwhelming mystery that compels fear and tre...
Monday, August 13, 2012

SUBMARINE SUBLIMITY

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At the end of THE THREE PART HARMONY OF DYNAMICITY I said: In a future essay I'll relate these three levels of dynamicity to the mor...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

ODDLY OR STRANGELY SUBLIME

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Does one necessarily *need* "arresting strangeness" to convey a sense of the marvelous? It would seem not, but at the same time t...
Monday, November 7, 2011

TIGERS AND GHOSTS AND GODS; OH MY!: PART 1

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Philosophically speaking, what does it mean to be a metaphenomenalist?  Or, for that matter, an isophenomenalist? In my conclusion of th...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

METAGODZILLA VS. ISOGHIDRAH: CONCLUSION

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At the end of the first essay in this essay-series, I said: ...I'll wind up by describing the relevance of their respective intersubj...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

METAGODZILLA VS. ISOGHIDRAH, PART 2

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Fantasy, of course, starts out with an advantage: arresting strangeness. But that advantage has been turned against it, and has contribute...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

METAGODZILLA VS. ISOGHIDRAH, PART 1

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Weighing in as the "Isoghidrah" of my title, we have the esteemed modernist author Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). In 1915, Conrad wr...