Category: politics
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How does one support a creative life in the early 21st C.?
How does one support a creative life in the early 21st C.? How make a living without losing one’s shirt or one’s soul? Much to my dismay, Lewis Hyde, in The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World, does not broach these questions because he is concerned, as he states quite explicitly, with writing…
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Roberto Unger on ‘the future of the left’
A breathtaking interview with Roberto Unger, “The Future of the Left,” The European (October 24, 2011) about the need to think differently. My curating below. (If you grant Unger’s conclusions, then you’ll have to also grant how truly “paradigm-shifting” his ideas are.) — Rethinking Modern Institutions “My view is that all the fundamental problems of the European…
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Reflections on the past 2 years of post-academic life
It had been almost two years since I’d re-read my paper, “Whither Moral Education?,” and what struck me only yesterday was the tone. The style of the piece caught my ear like a thief in the night. I could hear, as I hadn’t been able to before, a tinny shrillness, a crankiness, a forlornness. What…
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On invitations to have philosophical conversations, disciplines of eating, smallholding farming, and much more on Pindar and St. Benedict
In the spirit of giving, I’d like to invite you to have a philosophical conversation with me. Let’s call it philosophical conversation as gift giving. I’ve been meeting a lot of people this way in the past couple weeks. My strolling card is filling up, but let’s see if we can make it work. What’s…
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New universities for these unsettled times?
Unsettled Times We are living through unsettled times. Old ideas of education are no longer working; new ideas have yet to take hold. In the interregnum, we must think seriously in hopes of building new institutions aimed at fulfilling our basic needs and our higher ends. Weekend Events Later today, I’m heading to The Mycelium…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 