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Posted: 11 Aug 2021

Taken: 11 Aug 2021

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Humphry Bogart •
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African Queen •
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The Art Instinct •
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Mr. Allnut & Rose Sayer

Mr. Allnut & Rose Sayer

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 Dinesh
Dinesh club
Hauling in animal instincts to compare with human activities can be suitable way to show the grand continuity of life as Darwin understood it. But it can also be rhetorical strategy to cut human down to size, to reduce one (human) thing to another, much simpler (animal thing. There is no such reductionist or deflationary strategy entailed by Darwinian aesthetics. In ‘The African Queen,’ Humphrey Bogard character excuses his drinking by telling Rose Sayer, played by Katharine Hepburn, that “it’s only human nature.” I may surprise some readers, that this book is on the side of Rose’s famous retort: “Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.” There is no need to accept Rose’s theology in order to acknowledge that great works of music, drama, painting, or fiction set is above the very instincts that make them possible. Paradoxically, it is evolution -- most significantly, the evolution of imagination and intellect -- that enable us to transcend even our animal selves, and it is a purpose of this book to show how natural and sexual selection placed Homo sapiens in this odd situation. ~ Page 9
3 years ago.
 Dinesh
Dinesh club
THE ART INSTINCT
3 years ago.
 Denis Croissant
Denis Croissant club
Two great characters from the pen of C.S Forester!
3 years ago.
Dinesh club has replied to Denis Croissant club
Its a beautiful movie + music -- available on Youtube. Yet to read the book

& Thank you
3 years ago.
 Léopold
Léopold club
C'est de la grande photo cinématographique !
3 years ago.

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