In the case of an artist, I'm sure you'd consider their life experience and artistic production to be deeply inter-related. It's the same with philosophy and l

In the case of an artist, I'm sure you'd consider their life experience and artistic production to be deeply inter-related. It's the same with philosophy and literature. Only mathematical logic and similar formal philosophy is immune from an analysis that takes the author into account... The "New Criticism" of the mid-20th century which rules out considerations of biography is just one possible stance. The censorious tone of dang concerning a personal reaction to Cioran feels like part of a HN ethos of denying the value of subjectivity. A deadly caricature of life as lived by engineers.