Archive for the “philosophy” category
The sun shines to-day also
by Luke Rodgers on April 23, 2010
Read Emerson’s 1836 essay Nature online. link
Goethe-recognition FAIL
by Luke Rodgers on February 21, 2010
Goethe in same room as unaware Hölderlin; hilarity ensues
Logic of post-modern thought
by Luke Rodgers on February 19, 2010
The role played by “sympathy” in the middle ages, as Foucault develops it in The Order of Things, is today played by “contagion” (though we don’t know it).
Chekov on Nihilism
by Luke Rodgers on February 11, 2010
Excerpt from a letter, 1892.
Inspiration
by Luke Rodgers on January 23, 2010
is a dish best served unexpectedly
Some support for Schumpeter
by Luke Rodgers on September 2, 2009
The last book I read was Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Social, and Democracy, a book famous for coining the phrase “creative destruction” as a description of the process inherent to capitalism whereby old methods of production and commodities are incessantly obsolesced (…)
Pascal vs. Callwood
by Luke Rodgers on June 15, 2009
If Callwood and Pascal had been pre-socratics, all would be either hate or love (respectively)
Some philosophical kisses
by Luke Rodgers on June 1, 2009
The Heidegger kiss: all your kisses are okay, but never as good as before the latinization of Greece.
