Category: philosophy
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Today’s field/question: the ontological turn in 20th-century hermeneutics. At least that’s what I think the theme will be. Perhaps my professor will spring some other topic on me in about… more ›
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Is this damn blog still up and online? Does anyone ever post on this damn thing anymore? What’s up with the crappy black-and-white photos uploaded at random? Did the cute… more ›
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How academia is turning me into a stingy and petty academic. When resources are already stretched too far, the small benefits afforded students and professors in the humanities become necessary… more ›
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I’ve been reading Ricoeur as a near-end-of-the-semester treat, so I’m not sure if I even have anything to say about words. What I can say is that words speak themselves:… more ›
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Only two classes down. But for the third class, I already have an incomplete/extension. So, for the most part, I’m done with the semester. Done with coursework altogether. Not counting,… more ›
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Yes, I am the backwater, poor white trash that created a Facebook event page for World Philosophy Day. UNESCO, the sponsor of the global event, did not create one. Neither… more ›
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Protokoll: M. Heidegger’s Being and Time Έν άρχη ήν ̀ο λόγος… “Wherever I begin, it is all one to me, for there I shall return again.” – Parmenides At first,… more ›
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… you learn degree by degree.” Love is artifice, a construction. It is μίμησις; ποιέσις. It is, what Heidegger calls in “Die Frage nach der Technik” the “irruption of the… more ›
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The vitriol coursing through my veins. The black, black cloud of grief nestled in the corner of my soul. I find myself torn between these two old pals lately, and… more ›