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"a kind of clicking of mind... an onto-somethingness, a resonance, a pleasurable hint of an unspeakable coherence. Art, and poetry especially, is partial speech of this unspeakable coherence"
Peli says, look, it's a sociological fact that the many pre-modern, magical or religious ways of viewing the world are being eaten by the "scientific" image and the "manifest" image. The former is what it says on the tin—behavioral economics, evolutionary psychology, etc. The latter is a certain liberal rationalist view of man as someone who can participate in liberal society—who can behave rationally, make true or false statements, etc. The image of man that the courtroom presumes.
What poetry offers is another perspective, another way of knowing, which Peli wants to argue/show is not "romantic" or "wooey," but actually mathematically and scientifically defensible. Even if the insights of poetry can't be reduced to a mathematical or scientific formulation (or wouldn't be useful to fine-grain/reduce in this way), the way-of-generating-insights that poetry peddles can be explained and thereby justified scientifically.
Peli says, look, it's a sociological fact that the many pre-modern, magical or religious ways of viewing the world are being eaten by the "scientific" image and the "manifest" image. The former is what it says on the tin—behavioral economics, evolutionary psychology, etc. The latter is a certain liberal rationalist view of man as someone who can participate in liberal society—who can behave rationally, make true or false statements, etc. The image of man that the courtroom presumes.
What poetry offers is another perspective, another way of knowing, which Peli wants to argue/show is not "romantic" or "wooey," but actually mathematically and scientifically defensible. Even if the insights of poetry can't be reduced to a mathematical or scientific formulation (or wouldn't be useful to fine-grain/reduce in this way), the way-of-generating-insights that poetry peddles can be explained and thereby justified scientifically.