Category: politics
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Making sense of Occupy Wall Street: Tragic senses and synoptic views
The Distinction between Tragic Senses and Synoptic Views It is to long form literature, above all the novel form, that we turn for a tragic sense of life. The novel especially affords the reader a phenomenological account of the tragic experiences of ordinary people leading ordinary lives amid the godlike forces of social transformation. (See,…
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The return of the robots!
Beware the tin-tin bots, my friend! The jaws that bite, the hands that snatch! Beware the Jubjub can, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch! — Beware, beware because the robots are everywhere. They take our cash, they send us our buys, they give us our tickets, they feed us our food. They file our taxes,…
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On murmuring, alienation, and institutional failures
The philosopher David E. Cooper’s massive doorstop, World Religions: A Historical Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996), does have a leitmotiv. It is the “problem of ‘alienation’ or ‘estrangement.’” By these terms, they [Hegel and Marx] meant the sense which many human beings–all of them, perhaps, at times–have of being ‘strangers’, of not being ‘at home’, in…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 