Below is Stephen Follows’ entry for Solti in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Solti, Sir Georg (1912–1997), conductor, was born György Stern in Vérmezö utca, in the Buda district of Budapest, on 21 October 1912, the younger of the two children of Moricz (later Móric) Stern, a businessman originally from Balatonfökajár in southern Hungary,…
Listen here. I’m pleased to say that Jessica is part of the lineup for this forthcoming volume. This is the first public airing of the bespoke cover art. a confederacy of duncesBoethiusjessica hooten wilsonJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophical literature
The maestro — born on this day. I pretty much have all of his back catalogue going back to the 50s. bluegrassbluesCajunClarence “Gatemouth” Browncountryfiddlefunk zydekoguitarJazzLouisianaSwingtexas
My chum Chor-yung Cheung, the author of the Hayek title, has alerted me to this series. Roy Tseng, who I also know, is the author of the Oakeshott volume; the Berlin book is by YEH Hao, a student of John Gray; and the Arendt book is by Li Kin-zhang from L’Université Paris Ouest Nanterre. chor-yung cheungclassical liberalismFriedrich…
Still on an educational theme, Paul’s chapter coincidently comes soon after I’d attended a conference on Maria Montessori. As a Montessori kid myself, I now see the many continuities going back to Boëthius’ Trivium and Quadrivium. Paul Franco’s essay on Oakeshott’s philosophy of education, “Un Début dans la Vie Humaine,” fittingly concludes part 1 of this volume, for…
Published today. Had the pleasure of meeting Kevin in person this past weekend: he has a really sharp and interesting quality of mind. classical liberalismEducationKevin Currie-KnightLibertarianismPhilosophy of Education
Somehow I missed this recent book but not this announcement. Any conference with the participation of David Runia is a big deal. (Still working on a joint review of Maren Niehoff’s book who is also participating). david runiaethicshellenismJudaismMaren NiehoffNélida Naveros Córdovaphilo of alexandria
On a recent visit to Chicago I didn’t get the sense that Chicago memorializes their native (or adoptive) musical sons very diligently. This article confirms this impression: worth following the links in this article. This recently released collection by Rhino commemorates Curtis Mayfield’s 50 years as a solo artist and this year marks 20 years since Mayfield’s…
Julien Smith in Religion & Literature Vol. 45, No. 1 (spring 2013), pp. 55-79. I’m pleased to have come across this paper since I have for several years been muling over Percy’s invocation of the Jews. From his first novel The Moviegoer to his last novel The Thanatos Syndrome the fiction of Catholic novelist Walker Percy manifests…
The very excellent Eugene Heath in Metaphilosophy. Philosophy should not be immured within the confines of the university but should step confidently into the communal spaces of society. Philosophy should include, in other words, public philosophy. What, however, is public philosophy? And is it an unalloyed good? These questions are the subject of this essay.…
