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) […]
Category: heidegger
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 […]
Toward a General Hermeneutics
In the early nineteenth century Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher rejected the specialized hermeneutics of medieval philosophy (that is, theological, juridical, […]
Plant-Thinking
Recently I read Michael Marder’s Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life. I liked it well enough. It offers an erudite […]
Irigarayan Deinos & the Distance of Home, Part IV
Reflecting the double abysses, a “double power” seems to surround man as well: the power of the natural universe around […]
Irigarayan Deinos & the Distance of Home, Part III
To separate oneself from others and from our environment is the original violence we do, both to others as well […]
Irigarayan Deinos & the Distance of Home, Part II
The I of the Storm Reminding us that nature—as opposed or exterior to (masculine) human culture—is more than just tempest […]
Irigarayan Deinos & the Distance of Home, Part I
“Do not seek to go home.” – Chorus, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus “Home is where I want to be, but […]
Magna pretium cognoscere.
Pity the wood that finds itself a violin. Pity the thought that finds itself man.He thinks it must be due […]
