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• Quoting Stephen Marche

  Stephen Marche on Capital in the Twenty-First Century and contemporary US fiction:The arc of Franzenite fiction goes from leaving the bosom of an institution... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Quoting Marie Jahoda

  Otto Neurath let me participate in a seminar devoted to the translation of Freud's Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse into positivist language. I need hardly... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Quoting a Victorian Cleric

  Children, we all know, are the clearest and most merciless of logicians. The only fault in their reasoning about the conduct of their elders is, that it is too... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Poetic Berkeley, Prosaic Hume

  Wolfgang Breidert has a paper about some of the many poems that refer to Bishop Berkeley ('Berkeley Poetized' in Reexamining Berkeley's Philosophy, 2007) .... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Quotations About Hume by 2 Economists, an Epidemiologist, Borges & Hamann

  Amartya Sen:Hume's influence on the nature and reach of modern thinking has been monumental. From epistemology to practical reason, from aesthetics to... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Quotations on Language as a City

  Ralph Waldo Emerson:Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. ('Quotation Originality' in Letters and Social Aims... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Max Black & George Grant in a 1960 TV Show on CBC

  What a find! From CBC's archives for the show Fighting Words. Its initial run was from 1953 till 1962. It had a 'talking heads' format -- the guests would... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Links Re. Female Authors, Mostly early-mid-20th-Century and Mostly British

  Jack Paar interviews Mary McCarthy in 1963. How many layers of sexism are in Paar's introduction of McCarthy (at 9.03)?Kate Hext on the 3-volume The Women... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Some Blunden Links

  Carcanet has published a volume of poetry by John Greening. Most of the poems are addressed to WWI poets. The volume also includes translations of some German... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• WWI Literary Links

  

  Artists Rifles, Salisbury Plain (1914)Source.Serpent's Tail has a new edition of Frederic Manning's Her Privates We. Here's Manning's earlier version of that... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• WWI Author C. E. Montague

  

  Charles Edward Montague, a Guardian journalist who volunteered to serve in France although he had earlier been opposed to the war. Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Links Without Any Intended Unifying Theme

  

  Image sourceRichard Nixon in an undergrad paper at Whittier College in 1933:In making a short study of English philosophers during the past year I became an... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Quotes on the Self

  Bishop Berkeley: Philonous--.... I know what I mean by the term I and myself; and I know this immediately, or intuitively, though I do not perceive it as I... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• The Genovese Story and the 38 Bystanders

  Last weekend, the New York Post ran an article about the debunking of a myth that grew in the wake of Kitty Genovese's brutal 1964 murder in Queen's, New York. Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Links on Jane Austen's Moral Philosophy

  

  Thomas Rodham on Austen as a moral philosopher. (Here's Rodham's earlier post on Austen at his blog, Philosopher's Beard.)Rose Woodhouse responds to Rodham's... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Roundup on Recent English Translations

  

  A shot from Carol Reed's The Third Man.From John Gray's review of a new translation of Curzio Malaparte's The Skin:If you want a vividly realistic picture of th... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Blunden's Morbid Poetry in Undertones of War

  One of the best books that I read last year was Edmund Blunden's Undertones of War. Though a work of prose, Blunden's WWI memoir bears marks of the author's... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Anglicans -- Mostly Literary, Some Musical

  Rowan Williams on 'the point of Narnia', which includes an excerpt from his new book on C. S. Lewis, The Lion's World: a Journey into the Heart of Narnia. Here'... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Extraordinary Philosophy Links

  

  Erik Desmazieres' illustration for Borges' 'Library of Babel'Source of above image.From Philosopher's Zone, 'We need to talk about Hegel' -- Joe Gelonesi talks... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Delmore and Lou

  

  James Alma Agee with Delmore Schwartz (1939)Source of above photo.Zachary Braiterman draws attention to Lou Reed's days at Syracuse University, where Reed too... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2013 CULTURE