{"id":29,"date":"2003-11-25T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2003-11-25T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/2003\/11\/25\/combat-with-the-sun\/"},"modified":"2003-11-25T10:16:08","modified_gmt":"2003-11-25T14:16:08","slug":"combat-with-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/2003\/11\/25\/combat-with-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Combat with the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a13'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; In this dream I&#8217;m in Zammito&#8217;s class. At some point I raise my<br \/>\nhand and give a basic statement of the problem of determinism. After he<br \/>\nendorses it, I mention that for Stevens, the imagination is a defense<br \/>\nagainst determinism. I am disappointed that he doesn&#8217;t seem to know<br \/>\nthis well enough to confirm it. (This isn&#8217;t something I&#8217;d say in waking<br \/>\nlife. In Stevens, the imagination resists a lot of things that could<br \/>\nfall under the heading of necessity, but the problem of determinism<br \/>\nitself isn&#8217;t something he addresses in anything I&#8217;ve read.)<br \/>\n&nbsp; The overall feel of this dream is extremely vitalizing. I no<br \/>\nlonger get to hear people speak with the depth and power of Zammito;<br \/>\nfor the most part, I&#8217;m around &#8220;professionals&#8221;, a species related to him<br \/>\nas an orangutan is related to a human. In the dream, I re-experience<br \/>\nsomething that was part of an important awakening in my youth. It&#8217;s a<br \/>\nreminder of the substrate that&#8217;s there for me to tap and mine in my work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In this dream I&#8217;m in Zammito&#8217;s class. At some point I raise my hand and give a basic statement of the problem of determinism. After he endorses it, I mention that for Stevens, the imagination is a defense against determinism. I am disappointed that he doesn&#8217;t seem to know this well enough to confirm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1500],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}