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Tag Archives: rants
On the Genealogy of “Scientism” (Part I)
Last Monday I flew back from two weeks in Spain, where I interrupted my research on pintxos long enough to attend the Sixteenth International Conference on the History of Concepts. On Tuesday, I staggered into my first class, which — … Continue reading
Wieseltier on the Barricades
As an aspiring curmudgeon (and damn, it takes a lot of effort), I’d like to like Leon Wieseltier’s Brandeis commencement address — I mean, it’s really cranky and curmudgeony. But there are some things that even a would-be curmudgeon can’t … Continue reading
Fox News, the Enlightenment, and G. K. Chesterton
I’m about as familiar with the Fox News Channel as I am with golf: I know that people watch the former and I’m aware that people play the latter and when I go to the local YMCA I wind up … Continue reading
If Adorno had an Ngram
I’ve never been good at speculating on what earlier thinkers would have said about later developments. This was driven home to me several years ago when someone who’d bought an audio book on the Enlightenment that I’d been recruited to … Continue reading
Dreyfus, Dieterle, and Vienna Philharmonic (a Postscript to the Culture Industry)
My plan has been to limit posts on this blog to one a week (and schedule it for Sunday), but two recent articles in the New York Times have a certain relevance for my recent discussion of Horkheimer and Adorno’s … Continue reading
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