Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated. Camille Paglia More Quotes by Camille Paglia More Quotes From Camille Paglia Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history. Camille Paglia emily poetic genius Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe. Camille Paglia vision spiritual way The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati. Camille Paglia western deny tradition Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium. Camille Paglia fans long thinking It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned. Camille Paglia avant-garde hero art The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve. Camille Paglia generations views missing Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism. Camille Paglia white-man wise men Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Baudelaire is to find her sadomasochism obvious and flagrant. Birds, bees, and amputated hands are the dizzy stuff of this poetry. Dickinson is like the homosexual cultist draping himself in black leather and chains to bring the idea of masculinity into aggressive visibility. Camille Paglia writing hands ideas Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements. Camille Paglia flight elements rose It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition. Camille Paglia recovery europe ideas As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time. Camille Paglia political spiritual thinking [On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland. Camille Paglia bland university education [On Hollywood:] America's greatest achievement. Camille Paglia achievement hollywood america My anti-liberal position should not be mistaken for conservatism. Camille Paglia anti-liberal conservatism should A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery. Camille Paglia fashion hair children Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write. Camille Paglia writing years thinking Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo. Camille Paglia stimulus economic administration The Dionysian is no picnic. Camille Paglia picnics American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation. Camille Paglia fate different war Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts. Camille Paglia practice art school
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