Re: Fredric Jameson on Zizek
On Sep 3, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
*Wordsworth, Coleridge, Austen, Ricardo, Beethoven, Hegel. All six
have much in common. The key is Marx’s comment that the panic of 1825 revealed the historicity of capitalism. These six had been born just early enough that TINA was a sensible premise for them.
Using TINA in this context misses how thrilling it must have been to
be bourgeois early in the bourgeois revolution. I’ve been reading
bits of Maynard Solomon’s bio of Beethoven, and that really comes
across. Adorno has that line about Beethoven concertos representing
the ideal balance between individual/soloist and society/orchestra,
which later got corrupted into the virtuosic solo egoism of the
Romantic era. Of course only the Grosse Fuge and the last string
quartet were written in 1826, so he barely noticed the historicity of
k’ism. But, on the other hand, isn’t the damned thing feeling almost
permanent?
Doug