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• Philosophy Links & Beckett's Film

  

  Georg ReimersHere's a podcast in which Robert Zaretsky discusses the friendship and dispute involving Hume and Rousseau. A review of Ann Thomson's Bodies of... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2011 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Links Mostly About German Novels

  

  T. T. Heine's poster for a Munich cabaret (depicting Marya Delvard)The Tablet launches a series of monthly podcasts called 'Long Story Short' with an interview... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• New Philosophy Links and Unrelated Videos

  

  Erich MühsamErich MühsamDavid Auerbach on Hans Blumenberg: 'It is rare for [Hans Blumenberg] to “take sides” explicitly because he is often preoccupied with... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2011 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Austro-Hungarian Subjects

  

  Mia SlavenskaOtto von Habsburg's obituary: 'He died a happy man, right about almost everything, if usually too early.''“Only silence is innocent”: Zagajewski... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2011 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Café Stefanie (Munich)

  

  I did not make my entry into the Bohème until I had pushed back the thick baize curtain behind the glass door of the Café Stefanie, seated myself at one of the... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY

• Ur-hippies from Germany to California

  

  Gusto GräserIn a previous post I applied the term 'hippie central' to Schwabing (a neighborhood in Munich). I meant 'hippie' to refer generally to Bohemian... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2011 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Get Your Phil of Love

  

  By Gustav DoréInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on the philosophy of love Stanford Encyclopedia entry on phil of love 'Love, the Pope and C. S. Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2011 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Rowohlt and Friends in Leipzig

  

  Riquet Café with Nikolaikirche behind itIn Saxony, Dresden is a more popular tourist destination than Leipzig. I was short of time at this stage of my trip, so ... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2011 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, TRAVEL

• Roth and Musil in Berlin

  

  This building at Kurfürstendamm 217 in Berlin must have been a pension or hotel in the first third of the 20th century, since both Robert Musil and Joseph Roth... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE

• From Altschwabing to Manitoba

  

  Schwabing lay at the heart of Munich's artistic creativity in the years before and after WWI. In about two minutes one can walk past the former Schwabing... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2011 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Evil Café Dweller

  

  I've just returned from a trip to Germany. I visited Munich, Augsburg, Berlin, and Leipzig. I'll post on the cultural history of some of these places (in the wa... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, TRAVEL

• McLuhan in the Walrus

  

  The latest issue of the Walrus has an article on Marshall McLuhan by Jeet Heer. I knew that McLuhan converted to Roman Catholicism, but I hadn't realized how... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2011 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY

• Reviews, Anniversaries & Re-issues

  

  Antonina Pirozhkova, an engineer who designed several stations in the Moscow subway system, and who was Isaac Babel's common-law wife, and about whom I learned... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2011 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• 'History is Written by the Winners, Literature is Written by the Losers'

  

  Here's Paul Holdengraber's deeply rewarding, enriching interview with Howard Jacobson from the NY Public Library. Jacobson is suspicious of those who are... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2011 PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY

• Junker Shuns Liberal Teachings

  

  Henry Kissinger on a new book about Bismarck: 'Bismarck’s opponents were still wedded to the 18th-century concepts of the international system as a great... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2011 PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY

• Philosophy Podcasts & Negative Book Reviews

  

  Otto NeurathGalen Strawson gives Nicholas Humphrey's new book a negative review, and Humphrey retaliates with some nasty remarks in the comments sectionColin... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2011 PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Grand Old Dame Was Never Plain

  

  The Guardian has two reviews of Richard Greene's new biography of Dame Edith Sitwell. There are lots of other reviews -- by Claudia FitzHerbert, Robert... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2011 PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY

• Funny Firbank, Hamilton's Plaque, and a Little Flower Girl

  

  Ingeborg Bachmann From Christopher Fowler's list of nearly forgotten but good authors: 'Asked for his opinion of literature, [Ronald Firbank] admitted that he... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2011 PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY

• Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher -- The Schleiermach...

  

  Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher -- The Schleiermacher blog is back in action with new material on TroeltschAccording to Joseph Bottum, Charles Taylor... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2011 PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY

• Seems Vaguely Popperian

  "But Mr. Casaubon’s theory of the elements which made the seed of all tradition was not likely to bruise itself unawares against discoveries: it floated among... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2011 PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY