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Category Archives: Philosophy
Colin Wilson (1931 – 2013)
Colin Wilson, the prolific and eccentric writer on occult and other matters has died. At age 24, a precocious Wilson penned The Outsider (1956), a reimagining of classic existential-oriented literature and arts that made a big splash. It’s a decent … Continue reading
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Primo Levi
In The Nation, Vivian Gornick has an exceptionally well written review of Berel Lang’s book Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life. Gornick argues convincing that Primo Levi’s suicide in 1987 was not a direct result, per se, of his … Continue reading
Posted in Existentialism, History, Literature, Sociology
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Tea Party Communitarian
Libertarianism vs. paleoconservatism… It’s on ongoing dialect I struggle with all the times. From an article in the American Conservative on Sen. Mike Lee’s Utah-inspired conservatism: At the Heritage Foundation in April, Lee delivered a communitarian manifesto of sorts entitled … Continue reading
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French Revolution: Burke vs. Paine
The great Gertrude Himmelfarb reviews Yuval Levin’s The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left.
Posted in History, Political Theory
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Krauthammer on Krauthammer
With Krauthammer’s book now #1 on the NYT non-fiction bestseller list, Politico has an article “Krauthammer on Krauthammer”. Of the widespread resonance his writing has in the Beltway: On Capitol Hill, Krauthammer’s columns are read religiously by Republican members and … Continue reading
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The School of Arthur Danto
In “The School of Arthur Danto”, Crispin Sartwell opines on the late Arthur Danto’s very influential philosophical aesthetics. (I never really warmed to Danto’s “institutional theory of art”, which surfs a bit too closely to relativism for my tastes.) Sartwell … Continue reading
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We are Made for Cooperation
From the chapter entitled “Who are the Conservatives?” in Russell Kirk’s book Prospects for Conservatives: By the conservatism of desolation, I mean the forlorn endeavor of certain persons of conservative instincts to convince themselves that they are “individualists”—that is, devotees … Continue reading
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Arthur Danto
Arthur Danto, arguably the most influential philosopher of aesthetics of the last 50 years, has died at the age of 89. His approach to aesthetics took a Wittgensteinian turn, one which straddled the fence with relativism: In a 1964 essay … Continue reading
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At 80, McCain Considers Running For POTUS in ’16
I had to crack up at this story. The man’s narcissism runs *so* deep, and, well, his sheer… denial of certain facts of life. “The irony of man’s condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the … Continue reading
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Rawls on Immigration
John Rawls was one of the heaviest political theory hitters of the 20th century, and the famous ‘original position‘ argument in his magnum opus A Theory of Justice, is a cornerstone of modern philosophical argumentations for the welfare state. However, … Continue reading
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