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• RIP Alan Saunders

  Alan Saunders died last June. He hosted The Philosopher's Zone, a philosophy radio show in Australia. A philosophy radio show? I had never heard of such a thing. Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Beiser on Some neo-Kantian and Historicist Dudes

  From Brian Leiter's blog, I learned that Frederick Beiser has a new book out: The German Historicist Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2011). It looks truly... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Philosophical Style

  New Apps has a thread on 'great lines in philosophy.' Here's a page of such lines compiled at Siris in 2009. The New Apps thread was occasioned by Jim Holt's... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Nicolai Hartmann, Hume, and Moksha

  

  Nicolai Hartmann (who now has an entry at the Stanford Encyclopedia)Russell Stannard: 'The job of science is to describe the world we find ourselves in -- what... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Some Philosophy Links

  

  Reinhold Niebuhr (a pdf of his NY Times obit). The Niebuhr family.A series of Michael Sandel's podcasts at BBC4.At the Guardian, Benjamen Walker interviews Gile... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Frye, YouTube Intelligence, & a New Schrödinger Bio

  Northrop Frye in 1970: 'All the mass media have a close connection with the centres of social authority, and reflect their anxieties. ... [Such] communication i... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• A Stinging Review by McGinn

  Colin McGinn has been known to write some stinging book reviews (and was recently the target of one). I generally enjoy and learn from McGinn's reviews. Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2012 PHILOSOPHY

• Courland, Some Hungarians, & Drabble Reviews Pym

  

  Dezső KosztolányiMargaret Drabble reviews Barbara Pym's An Academic Question: "How I wish we had met properly, with time to talk over these matters. One thing... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• The Letters of Montreal Poet A. M. Klein Have Been Publis...

  The letters of Montreal poet A. M. Klein have been published. 'Literature was only one of Klein’s pursuits. By profession he was a lawyer, and from 1938 to... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Wittgenstein and Some German Novelists

  I linked in my previous post to some items that connect Wittgenstein to literary themes.Duncan Richter has a post about Wittgenstein and Kafka. In the comments... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Whither the Philosophical Novel ...

  

  Witold GombrowiczMartin Walser interviewed by Alexander Görlach on 'the old wound of lacking justification': 'The authors Franz Kafka and Karl Barth have quite ... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Old Vienna

  

  Three new Random House books are adorned by Klimt's art. First, there's Eric Kandel's new book: 'Kandel's key contribution to neuroaesthetics in The Age of... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Some Philosophy, Lit, and Art Links

  

  Here's an interesting new-ish journal, nonsite.org, the focus of which seems to be on issues straddling the boundary between philosophy and literary studies.... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Kleist On-line, Etc.

  

  I hadn't realized that last November was the 200th anniversary of Heinrich von Kleist's death. Deutsche Welle posted a brief video about this anniversary... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2012 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Central European Characters

  

  NPR interviews Richard Rhodes about his new book, Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World. Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2011 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Erratic Schwabinger Otto Gross

  

  "Dear Jung, -- I climbed over the asylum wall and am now in the Hotel X. This is a begging letter. Please send me money for the hotel expenses and also the trai... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2011 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Recently Sighted Shades of Central Europe

  

  Adolf Loos (photo by Trude Fleischmann)From 2003, a long article by Robert von Dassanowsky situating The Sound of Music in its historical contextFrom last... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2011 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Franz Hessel

  

  One of the interesting characters from early 20th-Century Schwabing was Franz Hessel, a flaneur and friend of Walter Benjamin's whom Anke Gleber has... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY

• Consciousness, Buddhism & Human Nature

  

  Alan Saunders interviews David Chalmers about 'zombies and consciousness'Does possibility entail conceivability? See the comments for points about Davidson's... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2011 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Northrop Frye on the Teaching Machine

  Northrop Frye in 1970:All the mass media have a close connection with the centres of social authority, and reflect their anxieties. ... [Such] communication is ... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2011 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY