Sloterdijk: You Must Change Your Life

UPDATE: Not enough Sloterdijk for you, go here. A new book from Sloterdijk just came out, it’s called Du musst dein Leben ändern, quite a title. Apparently the title comes from Rilke’s Archaic Torso of Apollo. Here’s a short review (with a rough translation) from Deutsche Welt:

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Doctor Shot At A Church (Updated)

UPDATE: Andrew Sullivan has a nice collection of link here.  George Tiller, a doctor and abortion rights activist was shot at his church in Wichita Kansan  this morning:  WICHITA - George Tiller, the Wichita doctor who became a national lightning rod in the debate over abortion, was shot to death this morning as he walked into [...]

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Not Being God: Gianni Vattimo’s Autobiography

Coming out this June, some excerpts are published here.  Gianni Vattimo, a leading philosopher of the continental school, has always resisted autobiography. But in this intimate memoir, the voice of Vattimo as thinker, political activist, and human being finds its expression on the page. With Piergiorgio Paterlini, a noted Italian writer and journalist, Vattimo reflects [...]

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Working With Your Hands

A new book coming out and I saw an article about it NYT, the book’s written by a PhD from University of Chicago who now fixes motorcycles and there are a couple of essay about it here and here. Looks like an interesting read:

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Rousseau vs. Hume: Hilarity In Action.

UPDATE: The book mentioned below is now available as a torrent on The Pirate Bay. I believe this is my very favorite philosophical beef of all time, if you haven’t had a chance to read wonderfully entertaining and accessible Rousseau’s Dog you must do it this summer or die.  This story has so many cool [...]

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Cosmo-Musings

Jon Cogburn has a nice short post on Graham Priest here. New realists have got to have an honest confrontation with the Kantian problems of totality, and Priest’s characterization of such problems in terms of varieties of Russell’s Paradox is an essential step forward. Russellian paradoxical proofs have two moments: one of Transcendence where a [...]

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Midrash, Quotation, Levinas: Some More Thoughts

Ok, dusting off my Levinas books!  In a comment to a post on some thoughts her talk about the Midrashic impulse triggered for me, Monica writes: His [Levinas] writing–at least in my reading–imitates precisely the style used by Talmudists and the rabbis and sages who created classical Midrash. There is always that moment in the [...]

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L’Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze (1996)

The eight-hour series of interviews between Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, filmed by Pierre-André Boutang in 1988-1989. There’s a couple of videos. I like these for mannerisms, I can’t claim to be able to understand everything. For a transcript/translations go here.  

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Pessimism Is Back

During these bright times of financial crisis, Seneca is back:  The Roman philosopher Seneca should be the author of the hour. Living in a time of continuous financial and political upheaval under the emperor Nero, Seneca interpreted philosophy as a discipline to keep us calm against a backdrop of continuous danger. His consolation was of [...]

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Scientology on Trial

So a woman in France is suing The Church of Scientology for fraud – apparently after a “free” psychological test she was pressured into paying large sums of money:  The woman at the centre of the case says she was approached by church members in Paris 10 years ago, and offered a free personality test. [...]

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