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Steely Dan: detached, absurdist, mordant, and anthropological
Here is the ever thoughtful Ed Feser on the death of Walter Becker. Ed is one of those commentators with a knack of being able to excavate and articulate ideas without going off on overly obscure or whimsical tangents. [T]he typical Steely Dan song represents some character type, usually hapless, disreputable, or marginal . .…
Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
What with the regressive mind set of the so-called alt-left and the alt-right (the Siamese twins of authoritarianism and thuggery), discussion of the rule of law, free speech and liberality is more salient than ever. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: find out about our new series on #ClassicalLiberalism https://t.co/g8H5UWT33R @M_W_Q pic.twitter.com/FSRkq5afVQ — Palgrave Economics (@PalgraveEcon) September 7,…
2016 Episteme Conference
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Walker Percy Wednesday 152
For us, consciousness of self is no different from consciousness of anything else. A self here is an individual self yet also a self among other selves. C2 selves vary from moment to moment from self-grandiosity to self-refusal, from being the infinite great self in the world to being the worst and the least self—because…
What is a Nation in Nationalism?
The very excellent Efriam Podoksik has a timely paper published in The Journal of Political Philosophy: Volume 25, Number 3, 2017, pp. 303–323. Challenging this dichotomy I suggested a tripartite scheme where nation as a self-sufficient high-culture community is the centre, whereas civic community and ethnic group are its peripheral mutations. Contrary to the common…
The Case for Psychedelics
W. Keith Campbell and Brandon Weiss in Quillette. We argue that the decision to ban therapeutic use of psychedelics was a tragic mistake. Brandon WeissconsciousnessdrugsneurosciencePhilosophy of mindPsychologyReligionspiritualityW. Keith Campbell
Power, power, power: it’s all familiar, and tiresome, postmodern schtick . . .
The case of Stephen Greenblatt by Bruce Bawer in the New Criterion. H/T Stephen Hicks. Cultural Studies is an intellectual and scholarly disaster. And its spiritual father is Stephen Greenblatt. Bruce Bawercultural marxismLiteratureLucretiusMarxismphilosophical literaturepost modernismregressive leftshakespearestephen greenblattstephen hicks
Walter Becker
Report in The Telegraph. Just yesterday, yet again and before this news, I happened to watch the making of Aja, one of the greatest albums of the 70s and beyond. I always thought Steely had class and intelligence (in an OCD way) but boy could they funk out as pure entertainment. For serious commentary on…
Prom 65: Stax Records: 50 Years of Soul
Here is the audio stream via BBC Radio 3 from last night along with a review in The Telegraph. Booker T was apparently asked to join Ellington’s band aged 13, but his mother wouldn’t let him booker Tduke ellingtonmusicsoul musicstax recordsSteve CropperTom Jones
