from Pierre Hadot, What Is Ancient Philosophy? (1995, trans. 2002): Socrates’ fellow citizens could not help perceiving his invitation to question all their values and their entire way
Month: January 2015
Reading Godwin, Puar, and Sullivan: Caleb Williams (1794), Terrorist Assemblages (2007), and Prison Religion (2009)
From William Godwin’s Things as They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794): Among my melancholy reflections I tasked my memory, and counted over the doors,
Reading Aloud (#19, #20, and #21): Wordsworth’s “Old Man Travelling” (1802); Pope’s An Essay on Man (1734); Shelley’s “Mont Blanc” (1816)
My “Topics in Romanticism” course met last Thursday evening for the first time this semester. Since we convene only once a week, I decided we should use the first class
Honoring Woolf and Her “Sketch”
Today is Virginia Woolf’s birthday. While I don’t normally celebrate or recognize the birthdays of my favorite authors, my relationship and fascination with Woolf’s life and work
Sketching a Present 