Born on June 8th. Becoming the Emperor: How Marguerite Yourcenar reinvented the past.
Then she came upon the drafts of a novel about Hadrian that she had begun when she was twenty-one and had later put aside. …. She was forty-five when she went back to Hadrian.
The very excellent James Alexander in The European Legacy. Oakeshott’s The Voice of Liberal Learning freely available here.
Noel Annan commented that Michael Oakeshott’s “was the finest evocation of the ‘the idea of the university’ since Newman’s; and more subtle and persuasive”.
Gone.
Check out Todd Alcott‘s other talent on Etsy. Another digital mashup artist that is doing interesting work is Josephine R. Unglaub whose work has already been featured and will again be featured as a Cosmos + Taxis cover.
What started as a distraction for the LA-based screenwriter and graphic artist is now a continuing project with hundreds of entries. Alcott describes the “cultural mashups”, made using digital-altering software, as a conversation between the songwriter, the original designer, himself and the viewer. “All four bring a wealth of associations,” he says. “Most of the songs I pick I have strong emotional ties to. “The graphics are much more fun than screenwriting, where you work on a script for years and it never gets made into a movie”. — The Guardian
Trailer for Stéphanie’s documentary (Martha’s youngest): an insider’s take of her mum entitled Bloody Daughter.
Going all the way back to his early essay “The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence,” Oakeshott always saw an intimate connection between political philosophy and the philosophy of law. Steven Gerencser subjects Oakeshott’s philosophy of law to careful analysis in his essay “Oakeshott on Law.” He argues that there is a fundamental tension between the traditionalist conception of law implicit in Oakeshott’s antirationalist writings and the formalistic conception of law found in his later writings, especially “The Rule of Law.” In the former, laws possess authority insofar as they reflect the cus- tomary beliefs and sentiments of a people; in the latter, they possess authority only insofar as they are the product of a formal legislative procedure. Can these opposing views be reconciled? Gerencser suggests that they can and looks to Hegel and the positivist jurist Georg Jellinek as possible models for such a reconciliation.
The maestro, born on this date.
The year’s most noteworthy release: Ardbeg Drum is a no-age statement single malt initially aged in ex-bourbon barrels and then finished in rum casks. Like previous Fèis Ìle bottlings, Ardbeg has released two versions. This one, bottled at 52% ABV, is sold exclusively to Ardbeg Committee Members. Not surprisingly, it has great appeal to Islay enthusiasts.
Another Chappist classic.
