El Cortesano: Identidad pública, simulación y 'sprezzatura'
Un pasaje de El Cortesano de Castiglione, y el comentario de Christiane Zschirnt:
"Parece un adulador de primera clase", murmuró Pietro da Napoli....
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David Marshall on Shaftesbury's 'Characters of Philosophy', in 'Characteristicks' (The Figure of Theater, Columbia UP, 1986):
"The point, however, is that the stage in Shaftesbury's description is only occasionally literal; it is created by the 'dramatic method' by which a 'person of profound parts' (1:105), acting as if he were alone, divides himself into actor and audience and gives his thoughts 'voice and accent' (1:113). Here we see the philosopher as Hamlet, the soliloq...
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A critique of the "third culture" drift in the Humanities, of E. O. Wilson's ideal of consilience or the unification of knowledge, and a defense of the traditional role of the humanities as distinct from pragmatic sciencific approaches. Variety of methods and approaches in the humanities, and their subjectivism, is not a sign of aimlessness, but of effectiveness in different contexts and for different people.
"Exploring and seeking to convey human experience is fundamentally different from observing, describiing, and seeking to explain human behavior."
The humanities are subjectivist and partisan, not objectivist and impartial.