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Category Archives: Essays

  1. Phenomenology of Punctuation January 25, 2012

    Posted in Essays.

    10 comments
  2. Two Daughters: On Pilar Donoso January 19, 2012

    Posted in Essays, Miscellania.

    1 comment
  3. Books of the Year 2011 December 27, 2011

    Posted in Essays, Miscellania.

    1 comment
  4. Godfrey Harold Hardy: A Mathematician’s Apology December 26, 2011

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    6 comments
  5. The Pale, Quiet, Episcopalian Breast: On a Phrase of Jeffrey Eugenides December 11, 2011

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    10 comments
  6. Paul Oskar Kristeller: Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance November 29, 2011

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    4 comments
  7. Kinbote Triumphant in Hell: The Riddle of Nabokov’s Ada November 22, 2011

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    6 comments
  8. Xorandor by Christine Brooke-Rose November 12, 2011

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    3 comments
  9. Burton Pike on Robert Musil: To Analyze and Order Experience Without Reducing It November 4, 2011

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    8 comments
  10. Benny Shanon: The Antipodes of the Mind October 21, 2011

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  11. Stanley Cavell and Timothy Williamson: Must We Mean What We Say? And How? October 11, 2011

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    4 comments
  12. Freud and Nude Psychotherapy for Criminal Psychopaths October 6, 2011

    Posted in Essays, Miscellania, Quotations.

    8 comments
  13. Ernest Gellner and The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason and the Cunning of Freud September 28, 2011

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    3 comments
  14. Ernest Gellner on Words and Things: Wittgenstein and Ordinary Language September 18, 2011

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    9 comments
  15. The Accident by Mihail Sebastian September 16, 2011

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    1 comment
  16. Galen Strawson, Buddhist Philosophy, and Radical Self-Awareness September 9, 2011

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  17. Ernst Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Pitfall of Being Reasonable (or: Fashionable Radicalism) August 27, 2011

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  18. Rod Humble and the Marriage: Not Labels, Not Pointers, but Live Fragments August 10, 2011

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    2 comments
  19. Birthday Notes on William Gass and The Tunnel August 2, 2011

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    4 comments
  20. C.D. Darlington, Sociobiology, and Reductionism in the Sciences July 24, 2011

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    2 comments
  21. Shakespeare’s Sick, Twisted Measure for Measure July 22, 2011

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    12 comments
  22. Cultural Illogic: David Golumbia and The Cultural Logic of Computation July 19, 2011

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    4 comments
  23. Chateau d’Argol by Julien Gracq July 16, 2011

    Posted in Essays, Miscellania.

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  24. Hans Blumenberg and His Myth Science Arkestra July 13, 2011

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  25. King Lear, Nihilism, and Mostly Inevitable Hope July 3, 2011

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  26. The Guinea Pigs, Ludvik Vaculik June 29, 2011

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    4 comments
  27. Robert Wiebe’s Self-Rule and American Democracy June 20, 2011

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    3 comments
  28. My Life in Books, The First Thirty Years June 7, 2011

    Posted in Essays, Miscellania.

    18 comments
  29. Barbara Comyns and Vladimir Sorokin June 6, 2011

    Posted in Essays.

    1 comment
  30. Notes on The Future of Academia June 2, 2011

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    3 comments