The brain's too distracted to post coherently. Must be spring.
On the radar:
Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed in several editorials posted at Passion of the Present, including Don't Try to Say You Didn't Know, by Oregon State University graduate student Sanjai Tripathi. Regarding news cycles, and what deserves our attention, it appears to me that media attention to Darfur has dropped to half of what it was one year ago, although the number of people dying per day has clearly not been halved, despite the inpouring of humanitarian aid. This is because over the past year the violence has not been halted, and the number of people displaced from their homes has more than doubled.
Brandon takes on Hume in his Enquiry Concerning the Origin of Religion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: History. Includes the wonderful line, "Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature." For context:
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish, as well as the aerial proportions and perspective, of vegetable beauty.
(Makes perfect sense to me, but maybe you had to be there.)
The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. I was able to stump the database a few times, either by oblongating the oblong, or arithmetical error. \/0\/ (*shrug*)
Time and Polarity: The Dimensional Thinking of Karl Heim (pdf) by Atso Eerikainen. File under theologians have more fun, although I have met a few people who claimed to be bored by rampantly Heideggerean dissertations on metaphysical topics.
Interesting discussions of emotion and responsibility over at the Garden of Forking Paths.
Sequence from Patanjali to Postmodernity, by A. V. Ashok.
The message of centuries of meditation in the East and the West on the enigma of sequence is that sequence is the primordial "play" ("lila") and paradox of the One and the Many, the principal perplexity of consciousness, and the perennial teaser of meaning.
In the works:
A reading of Arendt's "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship," her reply to criticisms of Eichmann in Jerusalum. How that bears on current debates.
Do numbers take up space? An aggressively naive probing of the Pythagorean worldview. Getting hung up on Derrida's intro to Husserl's "Origins of Geometry," Husserl himself, high energy physics, some Gabirol, a need to actually read and understand Aristotle's Metaphysics.
Aristoxenus' Elements of Rhythm. This is leading me to reconsider Pythagoras, which I hadn't imagined, and also Kofi Agawu's critique of Africanist musicology. A note on the connection between schema and habitus. Need to reread Panofsky and Bourdieu.
Fido the Yak v. Wendy Hamblet on Levinas' ethics. It's virtually a tko for Hamblet at this point, but Fido the Yak perseveres, confident that he has the superior reading of Totality and Infinity despite all evidence to the contrary. Definitely need to study the Cartesian Meditations, possibly Edith Stein as well.
George Herbert Mead's The Philosophy of the Present. Can probably be folded into "Personal Responsibility" without recourse to Minkowski space-time.
War of Visionaries: Francis Deng v. Jean-Loup Amselle. Actually more binocular than oppositional. Actually, actually more embyonic than anything at this point. We'll see.
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