David Auerbach on literature, philosophy, film, etc.
David Auerbach
Categories
Is Social Science a Joke?
Richard Biernacki exposes fatally sloppy sociology, covered up with fake science. Are quantitative methods hopelessly compromised in social science?
Am I a Redundant Human Being?
Austrian writer/painter Mela Hartwig’s short novel from 1931 portrays a misfit who is at once self-loathing yet keenly arrogant.
Portnoy’s Obsolete Complaint
Portnoy’s Complaint no longer resonates. It has become a snapshot of a culture that emancipated its scions from itself.
Father Time: Chronos and Kronos
A brief history of (Greek) Time. How Time-Chronos and Titan-Kronos have been confused from the very beginning. Time the Winged Serpent, Time the Melancholy Saturn, Time the Destroyer.
The World as Metaphor in Musil’s The Man Without Qualities
Genese Grill’s study of The Man Without Qualities provides a guide through the mystical “Other Condition” in the elusive latter portions of Robert Musil’s modernist novel.
Wilfrid Sellars and Edmund Husserl on Science and Life
Two philosophers, Husserl and Sellars, and the vision the hopes they both shared for a nonreductive unification of science and society.
Robert Bork: In Memoriam
Forgive if you will, but do not forget. Supreme Court aspirant Robert Bork on gun control, witchcraft, Snoop Doggy Dogg, and Usenet.
Links
- 50 Watts
- Anecdotal Evidence
- Balaustion
- Bibliographing
- Bifurcated Life
- chakira
- Common Reader
- Dilettante Scholar
- Early Modern Whale
- Eudaemonist
- Georgy Riecke
- Obooki
- Paul Raymont
- Pseudopodium
- Slawkenbergius's Tales
- Stochastic Bookmark
- The Idiot and the Dog
- This Public Address
- Three-Toed Sloth
- Times Flow Stemmed
- Waste
- With Hidden Noise
- wood s lot
- Wuthering Expectations
