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-- Current Reading -- Robert Frost (Library of America), Selected Letters (Ralph Ellison), Public Moralists (Stefan Collini), Sandman (Gaiman), Collected Journalism, etc. (Orwell)
"Good criticism is a matter of bouncing some of the books you have read off the rest of the books you have read."
-- Richard Rorty
-- Richard Rorty
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Two short introductions to my philosophical sponsor:
On Richard Rorty
On Pragmatism
American Romanticism
Writings on Religious Topics
Other Philosophy Stuff
- The Legacy of Group Thinking
- Legacy, II: Probability, Community, and Criteria
- Legacy, III: From Philosophy to Cultural Politics
- Posthumanism, Antiessentialism, and Depersonalization
- Notes on Mysticism
- Rhetorical Universalism
- Better and the Best
- Absolute Truth
- What Happened to Political Philosophy?
- Shapin: Teleology and Writing History
- First-Person, Third-Person
- Literary Madness
- The Parable of the Reductionist
- Second Thoughts on Existentialism
- >> Archive
Various Philosophers and Authors
- Quine, Sellars, Empiricism, and the Linguistic Turn
- Davidson's "On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme"
- Shklar's Vision of American Political Thought
- Cavell and Romanticism
- Cavell and What We Are Doing
- Cavell at Criticism
- Latour: I've Never Been Modern?
- Foucault and Posthumanism
- Stuart Hall, Codes, and Theory
- Timothy Morton and Metaphysics
- Against Northrop
- >> Archive
Lit Crit Stuff
- Touchstones
- Literature as Equipment for Living and as Spiritual Exercise
- On Literature's Accidents
- What Is Literary Theory?
- Philosophy for Lit Students
- Do We Need a Center, or Generalities?
- Autonomy and the Problem of Control in Moon
- Reading Academically
- Narrative and Making Sense
- Dreams, Narrative Structure, and Epistemological Authority in Wieland
- Blake and the Dialectic of Enlightenment
- The Ellisonian Self
- >> Archive
Stuff in Intellectual History
The Metaphysics Series
On Robert Pirsig
- Intro to Robert Pirsig
- A Short Pirsig Presentation
- Prospectus Originus
- What is Quality?
- Reading Pirsig as a Philosopher
- Pirsig's Quest for Certainty
- Pirsig and Bad Questions
- Pirsig, Baggini, and the First Rule of Philosophy
- Dewey, Pirsig, Rorty: An Ode to DMB
- Discussion With Dave Buchanan
- Philosophical Antiauthoritarianism
- >> Archive
Pirsig Related Sites and Material
Other Linkage
Index
- Abrams (3)
- Achebe (1)
- Adorno (4)
- Alexie (2)
- allegory (1)
- Allen (1)
- antiprofessionalism (6)
- appearance/reality (23)
- Arendt (1)
- argumentation (30)
- Aristotle (6)
- Arnold (1)
- asceticism (4)
- Austin (5)
- B. Johnson (1)
- babies (3)
- Bacon (3)
- Baier (6)
- Bain (1)
- Baldwin (4)
- Barth (2)
- Bate (2)
- Baudrillard (3)
- belief (9)
- Bennett (J.) (1)
- Bergson (2)
- Berkeley (4)
- Berlin (3)
- Bernstein (7)
- bio (18)
- Blake (3)
- Bloom (25)
- Bloom (Allan) (4)
- Blumenburg (5)
- Brandom (29)
- Bromwich (5)
- Brown (C. B.) (1)
- Buddhism (7)
- Burke (2)
- Burke (Edmund) (2)
- Camus (4)
- care (2)
- Carlin (2)
- Cassirer (1)
- Cavell (10)
- Cervantes (3)
- Chappelle (1)
- classic/romantic (6)
- close reading (3)
- Coetzee (1)
- Colbert (1)
- Coleridge (1)
- communitarianism (2)
- consciousness (7)
- Constant (1)
- Cornford (1)
- curiosity (5)
- D'Souza (1)
- Danto (1)
- Daoism (1)
- Davidson (25)
- de Man (2)
- decisionism (4)
- Deleuze (1)
- Dennett (6)
- Derrida (18)
- Descartes (22)
- Descrates (1)
- Dewey (33)
- Dickinson (1)
- direct experience (16)
- discourse on Western ghosts (5)
- disquotation (1)
- Dodds (1)
- Don Quixote (2)
- Douglass (2)
- Dworkin (1)
- Dynamic Quality (15)
- Eliot (3)
- Ellison (4)
- Emerson (35)
- empiricists (10)
- Enlightenment (9)
- epistemology (18)
- escapism (1)
- esotericism (2)
- essentialism (10)
- Fielding (1)
- Fish (11)
- fish-blink (2)
- Fliegelman (1)
- Forster (2)
- Foucault (10)
- free will (2)
- Frei (1)
- Freud (3)
- Fuller (1)
- G. Eliot (1)
- Gadamer (2)
- Geertz (1)
- glasses analogy (3)
- Gramsci (1)
- Greeks (22)
- Gross (1)
- Guthrie (1)
- Habermas (2)
- Hacking (4)
- Hadot (7)
- Hall (David) (1)
- Hall (Stuart) (1)
- Hamilton (1)
- Hanson (1)
- Harrison (1)
- Havelock (2)
- Hawthorne (8)
- Hebdige (1)
- Hegel (12)
- Heidegger (14)
- hipsters (1)
- Hirschman (1)
- historicism (4)
- Hobbes (1)
- holism (5)
- Hollinger (2)
- hope (3)
- Howe (2)
- humanism (5)
- Hume (7)
- Husserl (2)
- Huxley (A.) (1)
- imagination (6)
- impromptu dialectic (5)
- impromptu philosophy narrative (6)
- ineffable (13)
- ironist (5)
- Jaeger (1)
- James (25)
- James (Henry) (2)
- Jameson (5)
- Jefferson (3)
- Joyce (1)
- Kant (28)
- Kateb (1)
- Keats (1)
- Kennedy (1)
- Kerferd (1)
- Kermode (1)
- Kozol (1)
- Kuhn (6)
- Kundera (1)
- Lacan (1)
- Latour (1)
- Lawrence (1)
- Leibniz (1)
- Leitch (1)
- Lewis (5)
- Lewis (D.) (1)
- linguistic turn (13)
- literary criticism (18)
- Locke (6)
- logical positivism (11)
- Louis CK (2)
- Lovejoy (6)
- Lukács (1)
- Lyotard (3)
- Machiavelli (1)
- MacIntyre (7)
- madness (13)
- Malachowski (1)
- Mandeville (1)
- Marx (5)
- Marx (L.) (1)
- materialism (7)
- Matthiessen (1)
- McDowell (4)
- McKeon (5)
- MD (5)
- Melville (4)
- metaphilosophy (7)
- metaphor (16)
- metaphysics (27)
- Midgley (1)
- Mill (10)
- Miller (P.) (1)
- Milton (2)
- Montaigne (4)
- Montesquieu (1)
- mood (1)
- Morton (1)
- Mumford (1)
- Murdoch (2)
- mysticism (16)
- mythos/logos argument (2)
- narratives (12)
- Nehamas (10)
- Neiman (5)
- New Criticism (3)
- Nietzsche (19)
- Northrop (2)
- nostalgia (3)
- Nozick (1)
- Nussbaum (1)
- Ong (3)
- optimism (2)
- orality/literacy (5)
- Orphism (2)
- Ortega (2)
- Orwell (1)
- Packer (1)
- Pater (1)
- Peirce (3)
- philosophology (7)
- philosophy as autobiography (14)
- Plato (46)
- Pocock (1)
- poetry (14)
- Poirier (1)
- Prado (1)
- primitivism (4)
- private/public distinction (9)
- Protagoras (1)
- Putnam (8)
- Quine (9)
- quivering C-fibers (1)
- Randall (1)
- rationalists (6)
- Rawls (2)
- Reason (12)
- redescription (6)
- reductionism (2)
- representationalism (7)
- rhetoric (11)
- Richardson (1)
- Romanticism (20)
- Rousseau (6)
- Russell (3)
- Ryle (2)
- S/O Dilemma (5)
- Said (1)
- Santayana (3)
- Sartre (5)
- Saussure (2)
- Schneewind (1)
- Searle (1)
- Sedaris (1)
- Sellars (17)
- Shapin (3)
- Shelley (4)
- Shklar (7)
- skepticism (2)
- Smith (Adam) (1)
- Smith (B.H.) (1)
- Smith (R.M.) (1)
- Snell (2)
- Socrates (15)
- SOM (14)
- Sophists (7)
- Spinoza (1)
- spiritual exercises (4)
- Spivak (1)
- Sterne (1)
- Stevens (2)
- Stout (2)
- substance (1)
- sympathy (1)
- Tarski (1)
- Taylor (3)
- theory (18)
- Thoreau (7)
- Tompkins (2)
- Toulmin (5)
- tradition (7)
- triangulation (6)
- Trilling (1)
- truth (13)
- utilitarianism (1)
- virtues (5)
- Vlastos (1)
- vocabulary (11)
- Walzer (1)
- West (2)
- Wheeler (1)
- Whicher (1)
- Whitehead (5)
- Whitman (9)
- Williams (B.) (10)
- Williams (M.) (1)
- Williams (R.) (1)
- wisdom (14)
- Wittgenstein (25)
- Woolf (2)
- Wordsworth (1)
- Wright (3)
- Yack (6)
- Yeats (1)
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