David Auerbach on literature, philosophy, film, etc.
David Auerbach
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The Authority of Obscurity: Fludd, Hamann, Heidegger, Kripke
The rhetoric of four thinkers who deployed obscurity and confusion to promulgate their beliefs and criticize their opponents. Things have not changed much in 400 years.
Top 20 Non-redundant Live Albums
My picks of live albums that are either superior or substantively equal-but-different to their studio counterparts. A rare breed.
The Sound of Two Hands Clapping: Georges Dreyfus on Buddhism
Dreyfus’ remarkable book is both a memoir of the fifteen years he spent training as a Ge-luk Tibetan Buddhist monk and a cross-cultural comparison of Buddhist and Western philosophical education.
Continuity as Commodity and Fetish
Sherlock Holmes, Marvel Comics, and Doctor Who: three versions of continuity and their problems. The symbiotic relationship between creators and fans yields a false god.
Gore Vidal on Henry Miller
My most vivid memory of Vidal is him hilariously trashing Henry Miller’s Sexus–but really trashing the man, his work, and his very existence.
Heidegger’s Theology of Being
Herman Philipse makes very fine tombstones. This particular tombstone is for Martin Heidegger: a very critical exegesis of his philosophy that ends with a damning verdict.
Middlemarch and Mary Garth
People often forget Mary Garth in George Eliot’s Middlemarch. She is the third heroine of the book, not as idealistic as Dorothea and not as shallow as Rosamond, but wittier and probably smarter than both. Much of the critical work on Middlemarch barely mentions her.
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
