Daily Archives: January 23, 2014

Working at the Intersection

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Max West

Sometimes, life imitates parody. Here’s how a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education begins: As a critical theorist working at the intersection of Continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, and feminist and queer theory, I make observations about human life that … Continue reading →

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Anxiety & Consciousness

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Max West

Louis Menand reviews Scott Stossel’s book My Age of Anxiety: “To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala”—the home of the fight-or-flight reflex—“is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible … Continue reading →

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