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Is Social Science a Joke?
Richard Biernacki exposes fatally sloppy sociology, covered up with fake science. Are quantitative methods hopelessly compromised in social science?
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 ...
Triptych of Ideologies
John Clute on Cory Doctorow. The Heinlein comparison is significant and important in tracing the mainline of science-fiction. One good way to detect the secret handshake hidden in plain view in tales by Heinlein or ...
Robert Musil: Black Magic
I’ve quoted from it before, but it’s always worthy. Life is living: you cannot describe it to someone who does not know it. It is friendship and enmity, enthusiasm and disenchantment, peristalsis and ideology. Thinking ...
A Scene from Miklos Jancso’s Red Psalm
I’ve always thought of Jancso as one of the very few filmmakers, along with Godard, who could turn abstract ideas into visual sequences that could be absorbed without requiring viewers to engage in theorizing themselves. ...
Hans Blumenberg: Former Reflections Enduring Doubt
The Legitimacy of the Modern Age covers a lot of ground, but one of the central theses, and the one that bears little resemblance to most prior theories of history, is this one: The modern ...
Richard Rorty, 1931-2007
Here I was about to write on Dante, and I hear that Rorty has passed away. Rorty is such a paradoxical and multifaceted figure that his death gives me cause to ponder my own philosophical ...