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“Freedom’s just another word for Je est un autre.”
Touché. And given the present thread, Rimbaud may have arrived rather more punctually than either of us had any right…
Correction to my post: it should have read “when I went to her home last summer”.
I first met Gabriele Taylor when I was a graduate student in philosophy at St. Anne’s, studying for the B.Phil.…
Dear Roger of Invisible America, Your remarks towards the end of this comment about Nat Goldhaber (I’ve got a friend…
A remembered Dreyfus remark on the Maharishi: I recall hearing Dreyfus say in a recorded lecture, perhaps twenty-five years ago,…
I just published in the new PPA and can say it was one of the most difficult, rigorous R&R’s of…
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month:
Dignity, Rank, & Rights by Jeremy Waldron (Oxford University Press, 2012).
The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche 4: Human, All Too Human II and Unpublished Fragments, trans. by Gary Handwerk (Stanford University Press, 2013).
LoveKnowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida by Roy Brand (Columbia University Press, 2013).
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