Redhead, STAT!
I miss burgunder. I miss her like crazy, all the time, but right now in particular. I'm reading two books that I'd really like to noodle over with her (or any of you, this is an open invitation, it's just that I really, REALLY want my soulmate's perspective...):
Passing Strange and Wonderful: Aesthetics, Nature, and Culture by Yi-Fu Tuan. A proposition to recognize the role aesthetics plays in forming and sustaining cultural systems, and an overall argument for the importance of those experiences that awaken our senses. It is, no surprise, beautifully written. The Library Journal writes: "His analysis progresses from the individual and the physical world as accessed through sense experience to complex human creations of beauty in various media. Tuan also examines social contributions to aesthetics, especially as found in four disparate cultures: Australian Aboriginal, Chinese, medieval European, and America today." Right now I'm still mucking about in the philosophy of the earlier part of the book, but I'm looking forward to progressing into the rest of it.
Course in General Linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure. I'm not going to even attempt to sum this one up; that's what the Wikipedia link is for. Apparently I'm missing being in school--I'm 3 chapters into this and already taking copious notes.
Passing Strange and Wonderful: Aesthetics, Nature, and Culture by Yi-Fu Tuan. A proposition to recognize the role aesthetics plays in forming and sustaining cultural systems, and an overall argument for the importance of those experiences that awaken our senses. It is, no surprise, beautifully written. The Library Journal writes: "His analysis progresses from the individual and the physical world as accessed through sense experience to complex human creations of beauty in various media. Tuan also examines social contributions to aesthetics, especially as found in four disparate cultures: Australian Aboriginal, Chinese, medieval European, and America today." Right now I'm still mucking about in the philosophy of the earlier part of the book, but I'm looking forward to progressing into the rest of it.
Course in General Linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure. I'm not going to even attempt to sum this one up; that's what the Wikipedia link is for. Apparently I'm missing being in school--I'm 3 chapters into this and already taking copious notes.