Daily Archives: September 25, 2013

Camus’ Algerian Legacy

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Max West

From an article on Algeria’s cultural snubbing of Albert Camus’ Algerian legacy is this nice paragraph about the arc of Camus’ oevre: “There is a Camus for every stage of life,” says Kaplan, trying to explain Camus’ staying power and … Continue reading →

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Philosophy as Conversation

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Max West

Nigel Warburton has a nice article that contrasts the legends of western philosophy being created in extreme solitude with the historical, and necessary, communal dialectic.

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A.J. Ayer vs. Mike Tyson

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Max West

From an article on burgeoning philosophy clubs (alas, in the U.K. and not so much in the U.S.) is this great, even if apocryphal, tale: AJ Ayer, author of Language, Truth and Logic, was 77 when he took on Mike … Continue reading →

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William Gaddis

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Max West

In the New York Review of Books, Jonathan Raban, in a review on a new book of Gaddis’s letters, provides a nice biography of him. Gaddis, most famous for his 1955 novel The Recognitions, held conservative leanings: Besides Toynbee (“that … Continue reading →

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