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Mitch Hampton
Sep 1, 20249 min read
Values And Sensibility in Education
All of us have feelings like these over cultural products like books or movies, that I am categorizing as works of art.
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Mitch Hampton
Aug 1, 202412 min read
My Journey With Productions and Representations Past and Present
My Journey With Productions and Representations Past and Present
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Mitch Hampton
Mar 1, 20247 min read
March 2024- The Place of Aesthetics in Personal Biography
As of late in these posts I have been discussing my personal relationship with all sorts of art objects that happen to occupy a greater...
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Mitch Hampton
Jul 1, 202310 min read
Diversity, Beliefs, Democracy and Art
"I should make my own position as a philosopher clear. I'm not a relativist and I'm not an absolutist in the senses I have been talking...
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Mitch Hampton
Jun 1, 20237 min read
June post: Cinephelia and Summer
"There is nothing quite like that moment when the lights go down and all our hopes are concentrated on the screen." Pauline Kael Readers...
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Mitch Hampton
May 1, 20237 min read
May Post: Philosophy and Daily Life
In April I wrote at far greater length than I perhaps should have about Immanuel Kant. It immediately reminded me of Tim Scanlon's joke...
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Mitch Hampton
Apr 1, 20236 min read
On Being An Archivist of One's Own Life
Last month I went into a little detail about my return visit to my former home of Boston. Embedded inside is my little theory about the...
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Mitch Hampton
Mar 1, 20236 min read
March Post: The Reception of Art and Personal Experience
We like March. His Shoes are Purple — He is new and high — Makes he Mud for Dog and Peddler. Makes he Forests dry. Knows the Adder Tongue...
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Mitch Hampton
Dec 1, 20225 min read
Snapshots In Season
One of the results of having the immensely good fortune to be able to host this podcast has been the development of my “snapshot” idea or...
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Mitch Hampton
Jun 1, 20226 min read
The Presence of the Past
If I recall correctly, my last June post was in part a celebration and analysis of musicals, in particular my endless fascination with...
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Mitch Hampton
Apr 1, 20226 min read
April:On Getting in Touch With One's Feelings
George W. S. Trow, the public intellectual, humorist, essayist, screenwriter, journalist and many other things, closes his last book...
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Mitch Hampton
Feb 1, 20226 min read
It's All In The Style
"I am not saying that a work of art creates a world which is entirely self-referring. Of course works of art (with the important...
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Mitch Hampton
Oct 14, 20218 min read
My Snapshot Theory of Art
We ring in December with some thoughts about art and the connections these works bring.
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