William Eaton

Reading 24-30 March 2013 (ZiR)

March 27, 2013 by William Eaton

Reading 24-30 March 2013 (ZiR) Patrick Rea, MALS Student, Zeteo Contributor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 25 March 2013 I’ll quote from a person who knew Lincoln: I once heard Mr. Lincoln tell an anecdote on Col. Ethan Allen of Revolutionary notoriety which I have never heard from any one besides him and for your amusement I will try and tell it as well as I can. It appears that shortly after […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: Augustine, Brazil, Marxism

Environmental Philosophy and the Question of Origins

March 21, 2013 by William Eaton

Environmental Philosophy and the Question of Origins By Ashok Karra Review of Biogea, by Michel Serres. Translated by Randolph Burks (Univocal, 2012). Distributed by University of Minnesota Press. In Biogea, the French philosopher Michel Serres attempts to find a softer science, one not as destructive or reductive as the “hard” science some say we practice today. The Enlightenment, the historical root of that hard science, can be thought to have provided the ground for industrialization and a host of […]

Categories: Review • Tags: environmental philosophy, Michel Serres

Reading 17-23 March 2013

March 17, 2013 by William Eaton

Reading 10-16 March 2013 (ZiR) Rachael Benavidez, Zeteo Assistant Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 17 March 2013 Reading an article entitled “A Brief History of Applause” on The Atlantic Monthly website. No one knows exactly when or where applause originated, but what is fascinating about the article is that we have found new methods of “clapping our hands” when our hands cannot be heard. But we’re reinventing applause, too, for a world where […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Atlantic Monthly, Dewey, obesity, technology

The Personal, the Political, and the Intellectual

March 15, 2013 by William Eaton

The Personal, the Political, and the Intellectual By William Eaton Review of Finding Oneself in the Other by G.A. Cohen (Princeton University Press, 2013) {click for pdf, complete with easier to follow footnotes} [print_link] [email_link] Finding Oneself is an engaging and demoralizing collection of occasional pieces by the late G.A. (Jerry) Cohen, who was a leading Oxford University political philosopher and the author of several more ambitious works, including Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defence; Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality (a […]

Categories: Review • Tags: conservatism, Marx, Oxford, Wallace Shawn

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Reading: 3-9 March, 2013 (ZiR)

March 3, 2013 by William Eaton

Reading 3-9 March 2013 (ZiR) William Eaton, Zeteo Editorial Adviser [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 3 March 2013 A reader on vacation—shouldn’t he be on vacation from reading, too? Before I headed off on my most recent not-quite-vacation, with half a dozen “serious” books and a Kindle, I read a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education. It concerned “the insidious impact of new communication technologies on living and learning in another […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Alfred Kinsey, American Revolution, cellphones, Facebook, reading, vacation

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Reading: 3-9 February 2013

February 3, 2013 by William Eaton

From Rachael Benavidez, Zeteo Associate Editor 3 February 2013 February is African American History Month. You may or may not know that it was established by historian and journalist Carter G. Woodson, first as Negro History Week, which coincided with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. He is known as the godfather of Black history. Woodson’s most famous work is, perhaps, The Mis-Education of the Negro, published in 1933, a text in which Woodson argues the importance of the study […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Frederick Douglass, Jacob Lawrence, James Baldwin, Malcolm X

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Reading: 27 January-2 February 2013

January 28, 2013 by William Eaton

From Tyler Peckio, Zeteo Contributor 28 January 2013 Hollywood loses the plot Every Thursday for the past month myself, and a few friends from my undergraduate studies, meet up and discuss an agreed upon book. We always make an effort, no matter how abstract the content is, to establish connections between the material and our current lives (whether in an existential, political, economical, or societal way). Philosophical material should be read as a living, breathing, constantly evolving thing—not as something existing in […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Adorno, critical theory, culture, film, guns, Jorge Luis Borges, literature, media, psychology

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The Destruction of a Presidency

January 21, 2013 by William Eaton

The Destruction of a Presidency By Alan Stein Review of The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America by James T. Patterson (Basic Books, 2012) In his new book, James T. Patterson, a Bancroft Award-winning historian, promotes the idea that the Sixties actually began in 1965. This is not a new idea. As the author points out in his introduction, numerous writers have described 1965 as a “hinge” or turning point for America. Patterson states: “After 1965 for better and […]

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Reading: 20-26 January 2013

January 20, 2013 by William Eaton

From Maribí Henriquez, Zeteo Contributor 20 January 2013 My Sundays are dedicated to entertaining reads, and in my case, that means catching up with my list of fictional must-reads. I love stories of women, and Junot Diaz has an interesting way of empowering the Dominican woman through his cultural stories of love. I finally caught up to reading his latest book of short stories This Is How You Lose Her and am fighting the urge to compare it to his […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Junot Diaz, women

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Author Archives: William Eaton

Reading 24-30 March 2013 (ZiR)

Environmental Philosophy and the Question of Origins

Reading 17-23 March 2013

The Personal, the Political, and the Intellectual

Reading: 3-9 March, 2013 (ZiR)

Reading: 3-9 February 2013

Reading: 27 January-2 February 2013

The Destruction of a Presidency

Reading: 20-26 January 2013