Crisis of Faith

Having read Kant’s political writings for some time now, and having often compared his political advice (no resistance, reforms from above only) to his philosophical advice (revolution and undermining critique), I am slowly coming to an uncomfortable conclusion that was somewhat pressed upon me this week while I reread sections of “The Doctrine of Right” [...]

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Private Police Force?

Why not? I am sure it will work out just fine:

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Cesar Franck’s Quintet

Medici.tv has a great performance of Franck’s quintet (with Jean-Yves Thibaudet on piano) here – skip through Poulenc if you don’t care for him, Franck’s piece is the second on the program.

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Anxiety of Influence? Heidegger on Husserl…

The, er…rocky, but fruitful relationship between Husserl and Heidegger is well known.  I was skimming through Psychological and Transcendental Phenomenology and the Confrontation with Heidegger this afternoon and I came across this passage in a fiery letter Heidegger wrote to Karl Lowith in 1923: In the final hours of the seminar, I publicaly burned and [...]

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Philosophy as a Practice of Political Intervention.

Marxist-Leninist afternoon continues with a section from Althusser’s Lenin and Philosophy: In a lecture now a year old, published in a small volume by Maspero under the title Lenin and Philosophy, I have attempted to prove that Lenin should be regarded as having made a crucial contribution to dialectical materialism, in that he made a [...]

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Philosophy and Revolution (Kant – Forster – Fichte – Hegel)

Institut für Marxistische Studien und Forschungen has its Jahrbuch from 1978 to 1989 available online here.  There are plenty of interesting essays there, but I liked this one about Kant’s “revolution in thinking” not becoming a “thinking of revolution” – check it out.

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Disorderly Conduct: Don’t Be Hating.

Although I am sure that the charge of “disorderly conduct” has a long and glorious history, only with the arrest of Robert Louis Gates, a Harvard professor, the public finally realized that police is only there to serve and protect you if you are a well-behaved and respectful citizen (preferably, of course, white and middle [...]

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Respect Authority Memo

I don’t think this letter needs an explanation, I must include it in all future syllabi under “Class Discussion Policy: Do Not Contradict the Professor Under Any Circumstances” section:

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Met Opera Broadcasts Reruns.

Met Opera HD Broadcasts that I wrote about more when they just got around to it and which now became a sort of a regular thing to expect are reruning two operas from previous seasons in the next couple of weeks. Actually, the first date is tonight (Wednesday, July 29th) and the second date is [...]

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Braver Reading Group: Chapter 7 – A Short Rejoinder (by John Protevi)

[If you're just joining us, please click on the cover icon on the right side of the page to see the post that gathers all the discussions of Braver Reading Group, or click here.] [Note from Jon Cogburn--- I felt bad that project overcommitment made me phone in the post on Foucault to some extent, [...]

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