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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.
Paul Oskar Kristeller: Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance
This series of lectures, Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance (1964), contextualizes Renaissance humanism as well as any account I’ve read. For those like me whose philosophical education jumped from Aristotle to Descartes (with very brief stops at ...
Hans Blumenberg on Heidegger’s MacGuffin
Charitable or withering? (See here for supporting evidence.) The secret of the MacGuffin is that revealing its name only further heightens the suspense about its identity in each situation. This in turn challenges the master ...
Benny Shanon: The Antipodes of the Mind
Benny Shanon is an Israeli cognitive psychologist who has taken the psychoactive hallucinogen ayahuasca well over one hundred times. His book The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience is a scholarly attempt ...
Christianity in the 3rd Century: Gnosticism and Worldliness
Peter Brown writes in his great (and short) The World of Late Antiquity of the years leading up to Christianity’s big break, when Constantine converted in 312: The Christian Church differed from the other oriental cults, ...
Hans Blumenberg and His Myth Science Arkestra
I have an new article out at ReadySteadyBook: Hans Blumenberg and His Myth Science Arkestra. I tried to give a reasonably concise introduction to his work. There are many nuances and complications that I left out, ...