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“A new Theresa will hardly have the opportunity of reforming a conventual life, any more than a new Antigone will spend her heroic piety in daring all for the sake of a brother's burial: the medium in which their ardent deeds took shape is forever gone.“
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The Wasted World / Gregory Marks is one of my favourite current Hegel exegetes, producing some really engaging, generous commentaries. He’s also some written really lovely essays on Gillian Rose and medieval literature
thewastedworld.substack.com/… This whole series on reading Hegel by @thewastedworld has been a blessing for my reading group IRL.
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People often complain that there's no good, accessible academic writing, but I don't find that true. Many peers and academics I follow consistently put out amazing work, whether published or on Substack. I guess you just have to know where to look. Here are some great pieces:
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thewastedworld.substack.com/… Another piece by @thewastedworld on Gillian Rose
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thewastedworld.substack.com/… This whole series on reading Hegel by @thewastedworld has been a blessing for my reading group IRL.
Etienne Gilson on the role of the teacher for St Thomas Aquinas: far from an isolated, intellectual pursuit, the work of teaching is both contemplative and active, employing both theoretical and practical reason to mediate the truth to oneself and others.
“Sometime I want to understand every kind of way any one can have the feeling of being distinguished in them and every kind of thing that can give any one a feeling of such distinction of such virtue in themselves inside them.”
Me too, Gertrude Stein, me too.
“The disputed questions of the thirteenth century include few formal syllogisms but breathe the spirit of a very sincere search for truth. […] Demonstration was the work of reason, not of authority” (from introduction to Aquinas, Truth, vol. I, xvi).
I dreamt last night that I was about to watch The Muppets Ring Cycle. Siegmund, Sieglinde, and Siegfried were to be played by these bozos. I think we couldn’t get the subtitles working, and then I woke up. What could this mean?
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as promised I solved the discourse
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“One can conceive of writing infinitely on past texts, or at least I can. [...] There would be an activity of proliferating commentary, branching out, recurrent, which would be the true writing activity of our time.” (Barthes, Grain of the Voice, p. 148).
"I believe that the state of consciousness which would exemplify the Absolute Idea is love, since in love we have a state of harmony in which neither the subject nor the object can be considered as determinant" (McTaggart, 'Commentary on Hegel's Logic').
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My latest on the Preface to Hegel's Phenomenology -- turning from the opening critique of method to the outlines of a new system, and the necessity of a phenomenological exposition thereof.
tinyurl.com/y4wp3b8e
My latest on the Preface to Hegel's Phenomenology -- turning from the opening critique of method to the outlines of a new system, and the necessity of a phenomenological exposition thereof.
tinyurl.com/y4wp3b8e