The Complete Works of Primo Levi
“The ethics of Primo Levi” in the TLS — an overview of the Complete Works (H/T David Livingstone Smith) ethicsFranz Kafkaphilosophical literatureprimo levi. anthropologysciencetechnocratic
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Walker Percy Wednesday 88
The only mystery is that nothing changes. Nothing really happens. Marriages, births, deaths, terrible wars had occurred but had changed nothing. War is not a change but a poor attempt to make a change. War and peace are not events. ***** And, strange to say, at the very moment of his remembering the distant past,…
Walker Percy Wednesday 87
What was my (your, our) discovery? That I could act. I was free to act. Is this something everyone knows or thinks he knows or, if he knows, knows in the wrong way? With gold-tinted corneas everything looks like gold but it’s fool’s gold. Here was the kind of gold-tinted corneas I had: Dr. Duk…
Walker Percy Centenary
May 28th marks the centenary of Walker Percy’s birth. Here is the first public announcement of this work-in-progress for Louisiana State University Press to commemorate Percy’s birth. existentialismphilosophical literaturePhilosophyWalker Percy
The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition
The very excellent Ronald Schuchard discusses the genesis of this important and large project. Of course Valerie Eliot was vital to the realization of this task as he explains in the video. Some months ago I posted this amusing squib from VE and was reminded of one of my favorite Eliot quotes: All our knowledge brings us nearer to our…
Beauty Itself Became a Deadly Enemy
The very excellent Mishima scholar Donald Keene briefly discusses the English publication of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion almost exactly 57 years ago. What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same…
Walker Percy Wednesday 85
Surely, though, all is not well with a man who falls down in the fairway, and finds himself overtaken by unaccountable memories, memories of extraordinary power and poignancy. But memories of what? ***** He smiled. Yes, that was it. With two mirrors it is possible to see oneself briefly as a man among men rather…
Walker Percy Wednesday 84
The 10th May commemorates the death of Percy in 1990: this year marks the centenary of his birth. The lives of other people seemed even more farcical than his own. It astonished him that as farcical as most people’s lives were, they generally gave no sign of it. Why was it that it was he…
Walker Percy Wednesday 83
There is nothing like a liberal gone sour. ***** I told him this for two reasons. One was that it was the only reason he would believe, believing as he did that I was still a liberal and therefore capable of any madness. (Yet curiously it was for him an understandable madness: you know how…
Hegel on Hamlet
Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster in Spiked Review. Perhaps it is this yearning for a Catholic Shakespeare that must be given up in order to see Hamlet aright and see ourselves in its light. Perhaps we will have to dispense with the ghost’s prayer for an unadulterated life, for Catholic absolution, for an absolute. Hegel…
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