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Herder Quotes
A few minutes ago a good friend and I discussed some aspects of Mill’s relationship to developments within German liberalism. I made the claim that, despite the disclaimers proffered by anglo-american...
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Excerpt from a Review of Ascombe’s Intention
I’ve been nosing through Anscombe’s work on intentionality; more specifically, I’m reading her work as it relates to some of my developing ideas regarding a reconception of Hegel’s much-misunderstood...
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Bestimmung, Hegel and Horizont
In order to make determinations about the world, determinations which can be either true or false, one must make certain presuppositions. Some kind of enabling feature is required, a horizon, in virtue...
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Occupy Wall Street
I’ve been sifting through comment threads on various media outlets and was struck by the following post, which was in response to a fellow commenter. Apologies to the person who posted the following...
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Some scattered thoughts on film
I’d like to post quickly some thoughts regarding our relationship to the nature of film. The content of these thought calls attention to film’s parallel to a skeptical ontology that I’ve been...
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Love of a Child
I recall my parents angrily informing me, as a child, that I couldn’t possibly love. “What do you know of love”, they would ask. “You’re just a child.” What does a child know about love? Why does an...
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Musical Tears
I’d often find myself moved to tears not, as one might expect, as a result of the lachrymose divinity of the music’s sound, nor its almost certain ability to conjure the fluttering images from my...
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Dialogue from White Noise
The long walk started at noon. I didn’t know it would turn into a long walk. I thought it would be a miscellaneous meditation, Murray and Jake, half an hour’s campus meander. But it became a major...
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Sketches on a Train: Thinking Thinking in The Artist
Michel Hazanavicius’ film The Artist begins with a self-reflexive gesture that calls attention to both its genre as well as its status as a film. That is, its status as a film is pushed upon the viewer...
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Kritik des unreinen Gedankens
A student once asked Professor Hegel, “Professor Hegel. Why are you so smart?” Hegel responded by claiming that any thought which he thinks; any portrayal of the development of thought; any insight...
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