Return into the Lifeworld: Four Papers

I’m posting four papers here so they don’t get lost in email oblivion or get buried somewhere in my computer.  Plus, some readers may find the topics of interest: “The Open Body,” Joel Krueger, Dorothée Legrand Phenomenological Sociology – The Subjectivity of Everyday Life Søren Overgaard & Dan Zahavi Philosophical Issues: Phenomenology Evan Thompson and [...]

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But Who Will Pat Down The Pat Downers?

As someone who avoided holiday travel by air, I have to say that this whole TSA thing is really another example of bureaucratic mental lockdown which will only result in more and more ridiculous rules which we will all learn to love and cherish eventually. Trust me, I was born and raised in the Soviet [...]

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Thinking Intercorporeality

I want to call attention to a rather interesting article by Gail Weiss, “Intertwined Identities: Challenges to Bodily Autonomy,” in the latest (well, 2009) issue of Perspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy.  Here’s the abstract: Over the last decade, the international media has devoted increasing attention to operations that separate conjoined twins. Despite the fairly [...]

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Brian Leiter Strikes (Yet) Again.

People informed me of this hilarity:

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On Socrates’ Cowardly Suicide and Words That Don’t Really Exist…

Man, reading student papers over the next week (always leaving this fun activity until the last minute) – please, can someone kill me now? Apparently, Socrates committed a cowardly suicide while recovering from the emotional trauma of being convicted of a crime – what a loser! And what is going on with the grammatical errors? [...]

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Tolstoy’s Todestag

Man, I’m all about celebrating Tolstoy’s legacy (it’ll be 100 years since his death on 11/20), but this morning Die Zeit front page threw me off (a bit), partially with its graphics, partially because I didn’t know there was a competition for Germany’s favorite Russian (click to enlarge):

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Is Slavoj Zizek more than the pair of carats in his surname?

I’m going to go with probably not.  In a post entitled “Slavoj Zizek wants to See a Bloodbath,” Justin E.H. Smith suggests: Žižek’s shtick works for a number of reasons among readers who are not ordinarily receptive to calls to the barricades. One is that he is a clown, that he cuts his Leninism with [...]

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Interieurs

Dimitri Tolstoï:

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Alphonso Lingis (2 talks)

In A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman comments on  Alphonso  Lingis: Alphonso Lingis—whose unusual books, Excesses and Libido, consider the realms of human sensuality and kinkiness—travels the world sampling its exotic erotica. Often he primes the pump by writing letters to friends. I possess some extraordinary letters, half poetry, half anthropology, he sent [...]

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Ego Sum Ergo Doleo

In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant explains that properly philosophical work concludes with defi nition, produces it as its end, rather than beginning from defi nition in the manner of mathematics. The reason: “philosophical defi nitions are brought about only as expositions of given concepts, but mathematical definitions as constructions of concepts made originally. [...]

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