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Monthly Archives: April 2007

Abstract Gestures

8 Comments Posted by on April 10, 2007

Yesterday I posted a few reflections on an early reading group discussion of Hegel’s Phenomenology. Today my cold exacted its revenge for this burst of productivity, and I have found myself half-dozing, in a fog of a less-than-Hegelian kind, for much of the day. I had intended to write one unified reflection on the entire [...]

Philosophy of History, Reading Group

Hegelian Fog

3 Comments Posted by on April 9, 2007

I had intended to write something during the break on The Positivist Dispute in German Sociology – a work over which the reading group discussion has tarried. When we originally met to discuss our agreed selections, I found myself repeatedly supporting my own interpretations with reference to sections of the text that fell outside our [...]

Critical Theory, Philosophy of History, Reading Group

The Social Function of Philosophy

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 8, 2007

Still recovering from a cold and feeling a bit too fuzzy to write. I’ve been wanting to revisit Horkheimer’s “Traditional and Critical Theory”, and was casting about to see if there were a copy readily available online. Instead, I stumbled across his 1939 piece “The Social Function of Philosophy”. Re-reading it, I was struck by [...]

Critical Theory, Philosophy of History

Blogopalypse Now

2 Comments Posted by on April 2, 2007

Mostly Harmless is at it again – gathering together the various conversational strands of the cross-blog discussion of contemporary apocalypticism from a few months back, and adding some new voices. I had intended to try to write something new for the event, but find myself strangely too busy at the moment for the end of [...]

Conversations, Interdisciplinary, Links

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