Category: education
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‘We don’t need the big voice’
Beware of the big voice. So writes Martin Amis in his New Yorker review of Don DeLillo’s recently released collection of short stories, The Angela Esmerelda: Nine Stories. In “Laureate of Terror: Don DeLillo’s Prophetic Soul,” Amis relates, [W]hen a twelve-year-old, Esmerelda, is raped and thrown off a roof, her image “miraculously” appears on a nearby “billboard…
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Public lectures on philosophy as a way of life
Peter Adamson, a professor of ancient philosophy at Kings College London, is in the midst of recording an extensive number of 20-25 minute lectures addressed to the generally educated person on the “history of philosophy without any gaps.” His lectures on Aristotle’s ethics are fine and lucid as are his talks on the Cynics and the Cyrenaics.…
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On blurbs and encomia
Had my encomium been turned into a blurb? On Sunday, I’d received a nice note in my inbox to the effect that the first issue of the Journal of Modern Wisdom had been selling at a good clip at the local book shops in Cambridge. A few weeks prior, I’d sent a favorable review of JMW…
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A message to the post-graduate reader
Dear post-graduate reader writing from the future, I thought it was time to address you directly. You get in touch with me, oh, maybe about once a week, you ask a litany of questions, and I vacillate between not replying to your exorbitant requests, writing the briefest of suggestions, and venturing lengthy answers. You’ve graduated from…
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When I’m running low on food…
When I’m running low on food, I leave my coat and keys where they are. I have a look around and spend another day and then another with what I have around me. I mix them all around me and make my mouth anew. “Make do with what you have?” No, savor whatever passes through your hands.
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 