If this isn't my area of expertise, it's certainly one of my keenest personal and academic interests. On a personal level, I like to say I have the same relationship with my emotions as Nietzsche has with Socrates. On an academic level, I need to know how emotions are or aren't rational, and how that plays into meaning making. Not to mention that relations between objects and concepts is one of the most important things to me, right next to the scale and boundaries of the investigation and the metaphors we use in it. I would love nothing more than to talk to you about this problem, partly because I think I can help sort it out, and partly because I need to know if I can / need to refine my concepts. One of the most common bogus remarks I hear about literature is that it's purely what a particular reader makes of it. That said, literature is meaningless if it doesn't stand in relation to some audience.
Short answer: everything you wrote here makes perfect sense, and if you answer your own questions and doubts you're going to find something better than any new "analysis" of P&P.
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Date: 2010-08-06 06:20 pm (UTC)Short answer: everything you wrote here makes perfect sense, and if you answer your own questions and doubts you're going to find something better than any new "analysis" of P&P.