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Birdwatching Provides an Alternative to Love (or, The Question Concerning Ornithology)
This essay is adapted from a commencement speech Jonathan Franzen delivered on May 21 at Kenyon College. A couple of weeks ago, I started watching loggerhead shrikes instead of Eurasian wigeons. Needless to say, I ...
Other Thoughts on Levinas
Erica Weitzman’s article “Necessary Interruption: Traces of the Political in Levinas” draws a convincing comparison between Levinas’s ontological alterity ethics and the political theory of Carl Schmitt: In the well-known interview with Schlomo Malka and ...
Habermas on Derrida
Last one, I promise. This is just a great passage that identifies a more general gnostic/transcendent tendency among Derrida and a certain stream of predecessors who all tend to attract fervent, single-minded followings: As a ...
Michael Rosen on Derrida
From Leiter’s blog, Michael Rosen (who wrote the excellent On Voluntary Servitude, a book I would write about if it weren’t so dense that it’d require a huge amount of time to treat it) talks ...
Christian Hawkey: Ventrakl
I wrote a review of this book, a sort of postmodern engagement with Austrian poet Georg Trakl, for the Poetry Project Newsletter. The issue hasn’t been posted online, and since it can be a bit ...
Hans Blumenberg: Work on Myth, ch. 1
This is the second part of an occasional series as I work through this monster of a book, which to me seems far more dense than Blumenberg’s earlier The Legitimacy of the Modern World. (In ...
Blumenberg on Running Away
I saw Heiner Goebbel’s odd Stifters Dinge this weekend (made odder with the persistent head cold I’ve had), and though I think it’s senseless to try to give a concrete analysis of it, one part ...