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1 day agoNeil Diamond Announces Release of Rick Rubin-Produced Album Wild at Heart
Neil Diamond's album Wild at Heart, featuring unreleased tracks, will be released on May 8th, completing his trilogy with Rick Rubin.
In §46, Kant defines genius as "the inborn predisposition of the mind through which nature gives the rule to art" (5:307). Because beautiful art cannot be created according to fixed rules, the artistic genius is a kind of channel for the way beauty appears spontaneously in nature. (My slideshow includes Angelus Silesius's "Die Rose" on this point: "The rose is without why.") For Kant, genius has a talent that cannot be learned or taught, and it cannot give an account of itself.