Warm review of supposedly definitive biography. His Kafka is, not surprisingly, a complex man, tormented by all the well-documented demons, but also someone who liked to have fun and drink beer, a fan of both movie houses and brothels. Franz Kafkaphilosophical literatureReiner Stach
Here are the photos from the Milan conference which was a terrific success. Below is the editor-in-chief David Emanuel Andersson holding a copy of the latest issue of C+T. complexitycosmos & taxisemergent orderSpontaneous order
There is a slight unpleasantness about doing a psychiatric consultation in a small general hospital. Here a psychiatrist is ranked somewhere between a clergyman and an undertaker. One is tolerated. One sees the patient only if the patient has nothing else to do. ***** “Very interesting. Okay, okay. Let’s skip the metaphysics. You get into…
While traveling through the beautiful Ozarks I was reminded of this band’s compelling sound, at least manifest in their most famous number “Jackie Blue”. You like your life in a free-form style country rockmusicOzark Mountain Daredevils
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I picked up this unusual book in a wonderful book store, Buxton Books, in Charleston. If ever you are in Charleston, it’s well worth popping in and supporting them and maybe even get chatting to the charming and knowledgeable owners. Civil WarconfederateHistoryJewishJews
Hopefully this will find its way onto youtube. “Following the death of Britain’s greatest satirist in 1995, Peter Cook’s widow Lin locked the door of his house and refused all access to the media. Until this year, when she invited her friend Victor Lewis-Smith and a BBC crew inside to make a documentary about the…
As some will know Susan is my other philosophical “based mom”. (click image for pdf) Epistemologyphilosophical logicPhilosophysusan haack
If ever there was a “comfort” brew, this is it. Looking forward to working my way through Left Hand’s other beers. Beergastronomy
I am straddling them, trying to wedge them apart. Good God: a New York-New Orleans Democrat Jew fighting it out with a Birmingham Italian Confederate Republican. ***** A discovery: A shrink accomplishes more these days by his fecklessness than by his lordliness in the great days of Freud. ***** Time was when I’d have tested…
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