It is a great world in which the names of Nietzsche and Kant can be invoked in a discussion of popular music. This back-and-forth includes the following:
“In Kantian terms, you could say the problem is not with the act (of liking the particular record) but with the maxim — the principle — underlying that act.”Amen. I think.
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Posted by Culture Snob on Thursday, February 16, 2006.
Filed in Music.
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