hobbes/calvin and surrealism
Stephen Allcroft
You're talking about the litte lad with the imagininary tiger?
--
Stephen Allcroft
Hans Lebeck
Hobbes to do
with surrealism?
My answer is this:
Hobbes and Calvin is the ground of the modern West society.
They has an
enormus influence of ethichs and political theory as mr Max
Weber has
showned in his work "Capitalism and protestant ethichs".
But it has another side too. The surrealistic movement is
what Nietzsche
called a "tragic" movement, it has a very smool sense of
humor.The
surrealistic movement is a form of romantiscism of the 20th
centcury.
In an interwiew with Philippe Nemo has the jewish
philosopher Emmanuel
Levinas talked about the etichal counscioness in the Bible.
(Interwiew
number one in "Ethichs and Infinity") This makes in the
counscioness in
differance with the uncounscioness as the surrealist builde
their
movement on has a possibilite to what philosophers and
theologians as
Calvin and Hobbes calls "ratio".
Sigmund Freud has in his famous work "The laugh" showned
that the irony
and the laugh are a form of cynic and builds on the ground
of ratio,
seeing in the situaion in an indirectly way.
The surrealistic movement builds on the anti-modern in the
modernity.
Litterature:
Emmanuel Levinas Ethichs and infinity
Andre Breton The first surrealist manifesto
Andre Breton The second surrealist manifesto
Sigmund Freud The laugh
Salcia Landsmann Der j=FCdische Witz
ed P. King Th.Hobbes Critical Assements