AZI Is 'Finished'

I have decided to call a quits on the Art, Zen, and Insurrection project.

It no longer serves as an adequate frame for my thinking.

I really enjoyed working on it.

It has been a year and a half since I conceived the project.

It was wonderful to have a way to focus my thinking.

A way to guide my reading.

A way to understand my current reading in relation to my past reading.

A wonderful way to delve deeply into Collingwood's work.

But the project will be finished with Part III.3.

I will consider all of Part IV as an appendix of sorts.

A series of inquires into the potential political implications of the so called 'aesthetic existence' that I tried to work out in the project.

The concepts I developed in the project, however, cannot be worked out in terms of aesthetics.

They can only be worked out in terms of history.

Because the questions I want to pursue are about political action, judgement, and education.

I want to pursue Collingwood's political thought and its relationship with Clausewitzian thought.

I am beginning to think that The New Leviathan is the book for understanding Collingwood.

It is turning out to be incredibly elusive and difficult.

The Idea of History and The Principles of History present weird challenges because they were published posthumously.

But The New Leviathan is even stranger because it was published just months before he died.

It was his dying book.

Unfinished, he says.

How odd.

Either way, my thoughts needs to be pursued outside the framework of AZI.

It is holding me back.