Faceless Life

When prodded for some details about his biography Michel Henry responded: I would like to tell you how much I feel stripped away by the very idea of a biography. For one who thinks that the true self for us all is a no-worldly self, foreign to every empirical or objective determination, the attempt to [...]

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To Bike Or Not To Bike.

I live about 6 miles away from campus, but on the other side of town (not quite, but certainly that’s how I imagine it).  There is a nice bike trail that goes almost all the way from where I live to campus.  I have a bicycle, I have an interest in biking to campus.  I’m [...]

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Justice w/ Michael Sandel

I saw this article in NYT and I found this slick website – philosophy never looked so cool, it seems (and so sponsored by a delicious juice). In fact, this looks to me like a dawn of new tele-philosophy – Would it be great to turn on your TV late at night and catch a [...]

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The Red Book

Here‘s something to start your week off, a long piece in NYT about the infamous Jung’s “red book”: The book tells the story of Jung trying to face down his own demons as they emerged from the shadows. The results are humiliating, sometimes unsavory. In it, Jung travels the land of the dead, falls in [...]

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I Hear Drums, I Hear Bass.

I’m possibly the last person from our bunch who still occasionally reads the always entertaining Object-Oriented Philosophy blog with its eternal host Graham Harman. I admit it, I can’t stop myself, it’s fascinating. But I have to object to one observation by the all-knowing master, this does not sound like drum’n’bass at all, and as [...]

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SPEP 2009 Program

Speaking of program’s being available. SPEP 2009 program is here. Again, some interesting papers, familiar names, intriguing paper titles. There are definite sessions I would go to, if I were attending. Like this one: Session 2: What Should We Do with Our Brain? Georgetown Moderator: Elizabeth Rottenberg, DePaul University Speaker: Daniel Smith, Purdue University Speaker: [...]

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Rethinking Marxism 2009 Program

Available here. Looks like there’s going to be some fun stuff. Found some familiar names. Looking forward to it.

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My Teaching Day: A Topography

I teach on Mondays and Wednesdays this semester, I am on campus all day, I have a morning class, an afternoon class and a late afternoon class. I have two breaks between classes that I attempt to fill with productive activity. More often than not I fail to do so. I rise early in the [...]

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Oblivion and Beyond Being

Jean-Louis Chretien–in his short book The Unforgettable and the Unhoped For –offers an interesting connection between oblivion and the “beyond being:” This correlation between the beyond being and the non-rememberable is rediscovered, in what may seem an identical manner, in the thought of Emmanuel Levinas. And after all, can there be a thought of beyond [...]

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“Aude Describere!”

D. R. Koukal (from here): My reading of the western tradition of philosophy tells me that the exegetical attitude has a long history, and that this attitude has periodically nettled various thinkers, who have generated movements to counter this trend. [...] Phenomenology should certainly be counted as yet another attempt to bring philosophy back to [...]

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