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• Five Recent References to Philosophy (mostly from the New Statesman)

  

  Colette photographed by Madame d'OraJames Ryerson's long article on Wittgenstein's influence on David Foster WallaceJames Ryerson's note on the late Philippa... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2011 PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY

• Recent Climate Science Shows Us to Be on the Precipice

  Some of the more striking items in this post at Climate Progress (via Existence Machine): A study in Nature reports a 40% drop in the oceans' phytoplankton. Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2011 PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY

• Philosophy on the Net from Approx. the Last 3 Or 6 Months

  

  Carl StumpfMarilynn Robinson on William James: 'In James's understanding, it is theism that places us in the cosmos whole and wholly human. Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2011 PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY

• Who Were the Professional Philosophers in Nazi Germany?

  Eric Schwitzgebel has a post about professional philosophers (and ultimately ethics professors) in Nazi Germany. How many of them supported the Nazis? How many... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2011 PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY

• Fermor and 'Pips' Schey in The Hare With Amber Eyes

  

  One of the most popular entries in the books-of-the-year lists for 2010 is Edmund de Waal's The Hare With Amber Eyes, which chronicles the history of his family... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2010 PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY

• A Bookstore Trend That Must Die

  

  A new section at a local bookstore:There's a 'Controversial Knowledge' section at Amazon, too. Do the books outside this section contain uncontroversial... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2010 PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY

• Common Sense & Uncommon Sensibility

  

  Gilbert Ryle, whose 'ordinary language' philosophy championed common sense (and whose physician brother invented the Ryle Tube). Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2010 PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY

• More Vintage Toronto Bashing by Wyndham Lewis and Now Hemingway, Too

  I picked up William Burrill's book on Hemingway's years in Toronto, when Hemingway wrote for the Toronto Star. Curious as to whether Hemingway had crossed... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2010 PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY

• Both Irving Thalbergs

  

  Hollywood wunderkind Irving Thalberg, Sr.,who married Montreal-born Norma Shearer and whose son, Irving Thalberg, Jr. (scroll down at the last link for his bio... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2010 PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY

• Saul Bellow on How the Political Has Encroached on the Personal

  Who would have guessed that Saul Bellow anticipated a feminist theme? Admittedly, he does put a different spin on the idea."The personal is political." --... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2010 PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY

• Grass, Bernhard & Sebald

  

  Kurt Eisner (NY TImes pdf)Günther Grass interviewed in the Guardian. I didn't realize how much in the Tin Drum was drawn from Grass's life. Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2010 PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY

• Mitteleuropa Items

  

  Hans Blumenberg. Telos issues a Call for Papers for a special issue on his work.Here's an intriguing new book from Cambridge, Thinking the Unconscious, about th... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2010 PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY

• Recent Pieces by and About Kwame Anthony Appiah

  Kwame Anthony Appiah's review of Sam Harris' Moral Landscape;Appiah's insightful conjectures about what we will be condemned for by future... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2010 PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY

• New Book on Milton's Influence on Kant

  

  Illustration for Paradise Lost by Gustav DoréKant and Milton, a new book by Sanford Budick about Milton's inlfuence on Kant. Others apart sat on a hill... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2010 BOOKS, CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Wyndham Lewis

  

  Walrus Magazine has an intriguing article about Wyndham Lewis, an unlikeable English writer and artist who, sadly, was born in Canada. 'Sadly' for him, since... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2010 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY