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Awestruck is one thing, but I think you need to actually read the author's recounting of his own experience (which from sounds of it is furthermore many years i
by sp527 10y ago
Awestruck is one thing, but I think you need to actually read the author's recounting of his own experience (which from sounds of it is furthermore many years in retrospective) to understand why I'm calling him out on it.
- zorpner 10y agoThere's a reason that so much Enlightenment-era philosophy is devoted to trying to understand aesthetics/artistic genius, and it's that the human response to art can be truly profound. His description is no more hyperbolic than thousands of others, and the fact that you haven't experienced these reactions doesn't have any bearing on how others experience art.