Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
It's the writer's job to disarm the reader of his logic, to just make the reader feel.
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.
No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and revealed.
The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.
Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.
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