Mardi gras
I learned the language of angels in a religious experience on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras 1987. One night I […]
Category: being
Reading Heidegger
You won’t have read Heidegger until you’ve (also) read Being and Time. There are two routes toward reading B/T: 1) […]
Lucky’s Speech
It was years—decades even—from the time I first read Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot before seeing a production of it. In that […]
Lucky’s Speech
It was years—decades even—from the time I first read Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot before seeing a production of it. In that […]
Sacrament
“Światu grożą trzy plagi, trzy zarazy. Pierwsza–to plaga nacjonalizmu. Druga–to plaga rasizmu. Trzecia–to plaga religijnego fundamentalizmu. Te trzy plagi mają […]
Toward a General Hermeneutics
In the early nineteenth century Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher rejected the specialized hermeneutics of medieval philosophy (that is, theological, juridical, […]
An-Original Translation
Imagine being a historian of nineteenth-century Paris and your academic publisher demanding to see the original city before accepting your […]
Chatter
There’s a voice continually narrating in my mind. At no point is it louder than when I’m still, attempting to […]
As This Openness
The great Czechoslovakian philosopher Jan Patočka writes in his First Essay of the Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History, “Humans […]
Gaza
No, we do not have to accept the status quo. We do not have to accept the fact that our […]