Who Are Our Forms For?

Returning, over and over, to This Compost; today it's this:

Insisting that "truth" was symptomatic of specific bodies, Nietzsche wondered "whether philosophy has not been merely an interpretation of the body but a misunderstanding of the body." Nietzsche's physiological reanimation of the question of knowledge hinges on the somatic urgency of poetry, which is that each act of articulation, in writing or speaking, is an occasion of wisdom, the circumstantial composition of the real. Emerson's i...