A PHILOSOPHICAL FRAGMENT ON ART, REVENGE, COMMON SENSE, HOSPITALITY
A PHILOSOPHICAL FRAGMENT ON ART, REVENGE, COMMON SENSE, HOSPITALITY

Summary/Abstract: I would like to present here some basic philosophical reflections which have been part of my thinking about art and the “anti- Islamic” complex since 1992. I will speak here as a philosopher, which I am not, believing that philosophy, as art, has some sympathies with madness and ignorance and because philosophy often simply lacks the courage to be philosophy. For atelier pragmatics there is a clear difference between the philosopher’s and the artist’s ignorance. Ignorance, as part of the creative process in (modern) art, is absolute. It refers to every facet of production, even to the material – while the philosopher’s material can safely be defined as words. Now, the outcome (the work) of art is therefore something which can be seen as a (maybe the) precondition for finally posing the question, because one has to know something about the answer to be able to pose a precise question. The same goes for philosophy, where the (hopefully clear) question is of basic importance.

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