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Why do we find sad plays/movies/books/poems enjoyable? Why do we intentionally cause ourselves to feel unpleasant emotions?
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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-of-tragedy/
Why do we find sad plays/movies/books/poems enjoyable? Why do we intentionally cause ourselves to feel unpleasant emotions?
Check out @jonathangilmore.bsky.social's latest to learn more ✨️
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-of-tragedy/
Comments
wondering about the Kant reference... (is there explicit treatment in the Anthropologie in pragm. H.? he discusses eg the collapse of representation/reality in case of disgust there, but his accounts of the sublime etc might be more to the point, even be taken as answer to the p.o.t.)