Jan 7, 2017
“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy is.
Every angel is terrible.”
–Rainer Maria Rilke, “Duino Elegies”
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“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy is.
Every angel is terrible.”
–Rainer Maria Rilke, “Duino Elegies”
Through his analysis of ‘subjective form,’ Whitehead privileges feeling over understanding and offers an account of experience that is affective rather than cognitive. […] The ‘affective tone’ that suffuses every experience of perception both determines and exceeds cognition. We do not first perceive what is before us, and then respond emotionally to those perceptions. Whitehead says that the order is rather the reverse. […] Perception is first of all a matter of being affected bodily. Contact with the outside world strengthens or weakens the body, stimulates or inhibits it, furthers or impairs its various functions.
Shaviro, Without Criteria, 57