Re: RARA-AVIS: Re:Art and Morality

From: Robert Elkin ( rictusaporia@yahoo.com)
Date: 25 Feb 2007


--- DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net wrote [{that} Jim wrote]:
 
> "Dimitri Gat's NEVSKY'S DEMON, by way of contrast,
> is not immoral because it argues for a hateful
> ideology, but because the author plagiarized
JDMacD's
> THE DREADFUL LEMON SKY.

I don't think one could say legitimately that the plagiarism here makes the book "immoral"; if it did, one would have to first accept that the neutral concept of "art" itself is subservient to that of private property, and that doesn't work at all. R

 
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