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–L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between (1953)
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Category Archives: philosophy
Difference
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
“Anyone who has declared someone
else to be an idiot, a bad
apple, is
annoyed when it turns
out in the end
that he isn’t.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
On Categorical Cognition
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
The scholar tends to place things in their separate categories of analysis and attempts to make statements about causality based on those distinctions.
But there is something about experiencing an event or events that is lost in the subsequent translation of those events. More often than not, experience–the ways in which events both process and get [...]
Willingness
Saturday, March 5, 2011
The very possibility of civilized human discourse rests upon the willingness of people to consider that they may be mistaken.
–Richard Hofstadter
The American Frontier, Empire, and Minding the Future
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
One of the most important yet least appreciated topics in American history (outside of academia) is that of the “frontier.” Long the purview of historians of the American West, it has reached a level of conversation that no serious historian of American culture and power (i.e., politics) can afford to ignore. There is a large body [...]
Liberal Education and Community in the Thought of Leo Strauss
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Like a number of his European contemporaries, Leo Strauss viewed the modern person as a being whose experience was primarily one of alienation from authentic identity, or “our true situation.” He held that the lack of engagement with this reality—that is, the lack of relationship based in the experience of this reality—inhibits meaningful dialogue. [...]
The Search for Community in the Early New Right and New Left
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Men now live in conditions that are less than human. -Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, 1964 At a recent conference on the life and career of Barry Goldwater, an historian described the legacy of the Republican senator and one-time presidential candidate. The scholar drew from extensive research, which included several personal [...]