ENG315H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Will Hughes, Begging, Annamarie Jagose
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Eng315 lecture 5: the portrait of mr. w. h. (01-20-20) Epigram: decay of lying faith & truth. Simply that which is its own evidence (p. 5: relation to art for art"s sake, art as self-grounding/self-justifying, returns to portrait story as theory becomes its own evidence. Limits of theory: problem of story is that wh becomes real to the narrator/individual through faith gap between real to someone vs. real to all. I cannot think, reflect, or judge about my being, without starting from the very point which i am at concluding : always starting from conviction of argument in working to prove argument. Stanley cavell, something out of the ordinary (2005: risk of aesthetic isolation is feature of aesthetic claim, compulsion of sharing pleasure carries anxiety that claim stands to be rebuked because they are resistant to rational persuasion. Nature of art: beginning of story tells reader that all art belong to a certain degree a mode of acting .
