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Wittgenstein and Darwin’s Crab Soup

May 1, 2013 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link] Do you know, is the crab soup vegetarian? And of what uses are words if their meanings are bent by their use? And could comic philosophy be our last best hope? By William Eaton It could be teasing to begin this way, but . . . The last few months I have been working now and again on an essay about sex and philosophy, and it has seemed to me that the word “pleasure,” if not […]

Categories: Essay, Spring 2013 Issue • Tags: Darwin, evolution, Marx, meaning, Orwell, philosophy of language, Plato, vegetarianism, Wittgenstein

Thoreau: Mourning Turtle Doves

November 15, 2012 by Ed Mooney

Thoreau: Mourning Turtle Doves An amble from Concord on out By Edward F. Mooney I propose an amble with Thoreau, keeping him usually in sight (not reined in), and letting him be sometimes conjured, rather than the subject of an exclusively scholarly, investigative report. There will be some polemic, a reverie or two, and thoughts on how we might teach others, our students or neighbors, what our walking companion has taught us. I don’t write solely from a place of […]

Categories: Essay, Fall 2012 Issue • Tags: mourning, nature, Thoreau

For Love of Portnoy

November 15, 2012 by Daniel Taub

Developing a Jewish identity in Philip Roth’s America By Daniel Taub It is coming out of my ears already, the saga of the suffering Jews! Do me a favor, my people, and stick your suffering heritage up your suffering ass—I happen also to be a human being! — Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint In the United States we have struggled for our entire history with the integration of racial, ethnic and religious minorities—with who is allowed into American society […]

Categories: Essay, Fall 2012 Issue • Tags: anti-Semitism, Philip Roth

Lana del rey, flowers crown, "Born to Die"

The Meaning of Lana Del Rey

November 15, 2012 by William Eaton

Pop culture, post-feminism and the choices facing young women today By Catherine Vigier The criticism leveled against pop singer Lana Del Rey on the Internet and in the mainstream press raises a number of questions about young women choosing to conform to the image required of them by the corporate media in order to achieve success, and about the conditions under which success can be achieved in the culture industries and elsewhere. This raises further questions: about the power […]

Categories: Essay, Fall 2012 Issue • Tags: Adorno, feminism, popular music, women

The King’s Therapy

November 15, 2012 by William Eaton

Exploring our hopes for a cure, with help from The King’s Speech By William Eaton {Click for pdf} Shortly after seeing the movie The King’s Speech, I had the thought that it might provide a platform for exploring some ideas about psychotherapy. It seemed that this was really what the movie was about: psychotherapy and the relationship between patient and psychotherapist. Rewatching the movie I was impressed by how directly it presented its approach to psychotherapy. One of the lead characters, […]

Categories: Essay, Fall 2012 Issue • Tags: Freud, Ian Craib, psychotherapy

What the Market Will Bear, Occupy Wall Street poster by Roger Peet

The Scandal of Democracy

April 11, 2012 by William Eaton

The Scandal of Democracy Chaotic Thoughts on the Occupied Squares By Pablo Bustinduy Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundations of all — Hesiod, Theogony (II 116) Zeteo asked me to write a piece about the relations between Occupy Wall Street and the 15M, a political movement which erupted in Spain a few months before the events of New York. What follows, however, is not a list of affinities and discrepancies between […]

Categories: Essay, Spring 2012 Issue • Tags: chaos, democracy, Dewey, Hesiod, Occupy Wall Street, Plato, Spain

Elizabeth Bishop and Howard Moss

April 11, 2012 by danielpage49

Elizabeth Bishop and Howard Moss: A Question of Accuracy By Daniel D’Arezzo Among poets writing in English in the mid-twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) has emerged as one of the most influential—an influence not only on later generations of poets but on her contemporaries as well. Her oeuvre was not large: she published only a handful of books in her lifetime, and the poems were usually short; a longish poem like “Manuelzinho” has only 145 lines. She often wrote […]

Categories: Essay, Spring 2012 Issue • Tags: Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Moss, New Yorker, poetry

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