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Endnotes
1. As quoted in Bob Fenster, Duh!: The Stupid History of the Human Race (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2000), 208.
2. As quoted in Max Delbrück, Mind from Matter: An Essay on Evolutionary Epistemology, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986), 167.
3. Goethe, Faust, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Anchor Books, 1963), 93.
4. Ibid., 185.
5. The effectiveness of this ploy is obvious even to nonmusicians. I have played it in various classes unrelated to music. Students soon begin laughing, easily recognizing Satie’s intent.
6. Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1979).
7. Ibid., 35.
8. Even if his writing had been in “bad faith”: A philosopher of considerable stature, who must remain here anonymous, has indicated to me that Lyotard’s writing of The Condition of Postmodernity was, perhaps, largely a tongue-in-cheek affair that had (despite its questionable provenance) spectacular influence—a situation that could not be more appropriate to the phenomenon of postmodernity.
9. Vincent B. Leitch, Theory Matters (New York: Routledge, 2003), 5.
10. Ibid., 14.
11. An interesting exercise will be for the reader to monitor his/her own reactions to analyses developed herein of popular phenomena as compared to analyses of “high” art and culture. Many traditional scholars find discussion of popular culture rankling, seemingly unworthy for consideration in a “scholarly” work.
12. Joseph Margolis, Interpretation Radical, but Not Unruly: The New Puzzle of the Arts and History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), 2-8. One of the most succinct and articulate summations of the quandaries implied here is by a contemporary philosopher named Joseph Margolis. Because these will come up several times in this book, it would be wise to take some time to dwell on the following five points. They contain the central conclusions of much of the thinking relevant to the situation of knowledge and the arts at the present time. I include a couple of inserts (in brackets) that will hopefully elucidate.