Contravex: A blog by Pete D

Excerpts from “The Castle of Purity” by Octavio Paz, 1966

Today we have criticism instead of ideas, methods instead of systems. Our only idea, in the proper sense of the term, is Criticism. The Large Glass is a painting of ideas because, as I think I have shown, it is a critical myth. But if it was only this, it would merely be one work more […]

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Pete D. in Épistémologie, L'artifice, Société en Général | Leave a comment
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