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• Arthur Danto, 1929-2013

  Arthur Danto's obituary and a reminiscence by one of his colleagues at The Nation.Akeel Bilgrami and Sidney Morgenbesser remember Danto:Premonitions of that... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Some Weimar Links

  

  In this 1922 photo are (from left to right): Wieland Herzfelde, Eva and George Grosz, Rudolf Schlichter, and John Heartfield.A new collection of papers on Weima... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Links Concerning Polish Literature in the Former Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria

  

  Krakow is now a UNESCO City of Literature. Here's a long list of authors who lived in Krakow.Sławomir Mrożek, a playwright and native of Krakow, died last... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Essays, Aphorisms, Facts

  

  Vienna Court Opera, 1902From Michael Hofmann's review of the new Franzen-Reitter-Kehlmann book of Kraus:Can aphorism be a secure repository for a reputation? Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Roundup of Links to Austro-Hungarian Outposts

  

  'David. S. Luft’s evocative translations in Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Idea: Selected Essays and Addresses 1906-1927 are a welcome addition to the... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Popper, Middlemarch, and Phrenology

  A couple of years ago, I noted an interesting passage in George Eliot's Middlemarch. In it, Eliot seemed to anticipate the Popperian insight that a truly... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Dark Arcadias

  

  Henry Fuseli 'Titania's Awakening' (1785)Three of these five BBC broadcasts on 'Dark Arcadias' may still be played. Chapter 5 of John F. Lynen's 1960 book on... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Why Was Musil Unfair to Karl Kraus?

  

  You can see and hear Kraus reading from one of his texts at 8.21 in the above clip.Among Karl Kraus' fans were many first-rate geniuses. Kafka, Wittgenstein,... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Café Culture

  

  London coffeehouse -- 'A disagreement about the Cartesian Dream Argument turns sour'Source.A new book from Berghahn: The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Links to Scintillating Excogitations, Largely Wittgensteinian

  

  Rose Rand, who was born in Lemberg and moved to Austria, where she was a member of the Vienna Circle, and fled to England in 1939 with Susan Stebbing's help. Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Items of Interest

  

  Image from Time's Flow Stemmed.'Paris, Beckett and Me' by John Calder. Alasdair Gray interviewed in the Scottish Review of Books.From the Irish Times, Patrick... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Comrades! Jail the Idlers Who Don't Update Library Holdings!

  

  V.I. Lenin on May 21, 1921 (p. 77): Have the gubernia and uyezd libraries copies of the Plan for the Electrification of the R.S.F.S.R., which was submitted as... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Blunden: No Time for the Present

  I noted that in Undertones of War, Edmund Blunden juxtaposes the pastoral landscape and its wreckage by modern, industrial warfare. Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Follow-ups to Recent Posts

  

  No book has sent me to a dictionary more often than Blunden's Undertones of War, and some of the terms in that work can't be found in recent dictionaries. Case... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Tolkien and the Great War

  

  Reading Blunden's Undertones of War inspired me to have a look at material about the Somme campaign and its literary representations. Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• World War I Books

  

  'Paths of Glory' by C. R. W. Nevinson (1917)The First World War centenary will soon be upon us. I've been looking for some good books about the Great War. Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• He Didn't Use the Example of 'game' but ...

  I'm reading a 19th-century author, Richard Whately, who was the Anglican Archbishop of Dublin. He wrote the first modern (not entirely Aristotelian) logic... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Boyd's Allusions to Blunden in Waiting for Sunrise

  I'm in the midst of two books about WWI: William Boyd's novel, Waiting for Sunrise, and Edmund Blunden's classic memoir Undertones of War. There appear to be... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Gorey-ish Note in Mind (1879)

  I was combing through the earliest issues of Mind, the preeminent philosophy journal in the UK, when I found this odd note by Henry Maudsley called 'Alleged... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• May Sinclair, Novelist and Philosopher

  

  May SinclairLate in April on the Pea Soup blog, there was a query about philosophy in novels. I discovered that one such book was by Mrs. Humphry Ward (aka... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY