Morgan Meis in The Smart Set, Nobody’s a Critic. Or they’re at least terrified to be one: “Criticism isn’t powerful anymore. It doesn’t drive anything, it doesn’t define what is good and bad in culture. Surely this has mostly to do with all the changes in the media landscape over the last few decades. Basically, [...]
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Nobody’s a Critic
August 17th, 2008
Tags: art · criticism · immanuel kant · literary critics · literature · philosophy
The Edge Annual Question — 2008
January 2nd, 2008
Edge, The Edge Annual Question — 2008: “When thinking changes your mind, that’s philosophy. When God changes your mind, that’s faith. When facts change your mind, that’s science. WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY? Science is based on evidence. What happens when the data change? How have scientific findings or arguments changed your [...]
Tags: edge · philosophy · science
The New New Philosophy
December 11th, 2007
Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New New Philosophy: “Suppose the chairman of a company has to decide whether to adopt a new program. It would increase profits and help the environment too. “I don’t care at all about helping the environment,” the chairman says. “I just want to make as much profit as I can. Let’s [...]
Tags: philosophy
Kalima Translation
November 22nd, 2007
Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (980-1037) (Wikipedia) Kalima Translation: “Every year Kalima will select 100 candidate titles of classic, contemporary and modern writing from around the world to be translated into Arabic.” The Guardian, Translation project to bring cream of foreign writers to Arabs: “The first 100 are from 16 languages, including Greek, Japanese, Swedish, Czech, Russian, [...]
Tags: arab · history · kalima · literature · philosophy · science · translation
Charlie Rose – Guest Host Bill Moyers with philosopher Daniel Dennett
August 6th, 2007
Tags: atheism · bill moyers · charlie rose · daniel dennett · philosophy · religion · video
I Contain Multitudes – Mikhail Bakhtin: The Word in the World by Graham Pechey
June 28th, 2007
Terry Eagleton in London Review of Books: “For the past three decades, Mikhail Bakhtin has been more of an industry than an individual. Not only an industry, in fact, but a flourishing transnational corporation, complete with jet-setting chief executives, global conventions and its own in-house journal. In the field of cultural theory, this victim of [...]
Tags: dialogism · literary critics · literature · mikhail bakhtin · philosophy
Kosmopolitisme en zijn vijanden
June 9th, 2007
Filosofieblog: “De term kosmopolitisme is aan een sterke opmars bezig binnen de hedendaagse politieke filosofie. In tegenstelling tot wat velen denken heeft het concept al een eeuwenoude geschiedenis.” (via)
Tags: david held · irich beck · martha nussbaum · philosophy · salman rushdie
Human all Too Human
May 28th, 2007
BBC documentaire Human all Too Human over Friedrich Nietzsche uit 1999. (via) – Extra van Project Gutenberg, de tekst van het gelijknamige boek uit 1878 Menschliches, Allzumenschliches.
Tags: bbc · biography · documentary · friedrich nietzsche · philosophy · video