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Anatomy of Liberty in Don Quijote de la Mancha: Religion, Feminism, Slavery, Politics, and Economics in the First Modern Novel
Published today. Stay tuned for a C+T symposium on the book. classical liberalismDon QuixoteEconomicseric graffeminismphilosophical literaturePoliticsReligionslavery
Oakeshott on the Character of Religion Experience: Need there be a Conflict Between Science and Religion?
ZYGON — Vo. 44. Issue 1, pp. 153-167. CervantesDon Quixoteexperience and its modesF. H. BradleyGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelIdealismMichael OakeshottMontaignescience and religionstoicismTimothy Fuller
James Gardner March: I know who I am
H/T Brendan Markey-Towler for bringing this obituary to my attention. His seminal book, Organizations, written jointly with Herbert A. Simon in 1958 . . . In an October 3 memoriam published in Le Monde Thierry Weil asserts that many believe March should have shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for Economics with Herbert Simon for the theories…
With all this talk of Shakespeare Cervantes is overlooked
His words still shape our consciousness, even if we fail to read him. This is not due to some hackneyed idealism (“tilting at windmills”), but rather to his pervasive impact on the genre that taught us to think like moderns: the novel. He pioneered the representation of individual subjectivity and aspiration, which today undergirds the…
Oakeshott on the Character of Religious Experience: Need There be a Conflict Between Science and Religion?
Here is the intro from Tim Fuller’s essay from Zygon. Michael Oakeshott rarely acknowledged specific intellectual debts. In Experience and Its Modes (1933), however, he cited as major influences on his thinking G. W. F. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) and F. H. Bradley’s Appearance and Reality (1893). Oakeshott was invoking the tradition of Hegelian/British idealism,…
A Confederacy of Dunces
Here is a documentary film John Kennedy Toole: the omega point freely available to view. The subject matter, the greatest American novel of the 20th Century putting Toole (IMHO) up there with novelists of the order of Kafka, Musil, and Mann – and that based on one work alone. Here is the excellent blog run by JKT’s…
Oakeshott on Aesthetic Experience
Here is a trailer of Corey Abel’s essay “Whatever It Turns Out To Be: Oakeshott on Aesthetic Experience,” the eighth essay in the run-up to the Companion’s official publication on October 19: Orbaneja, a fictional painter from a real town, is criticized by Don Quixote for painting so badly that he produces only “whatever emerges,” so…
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