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Category: Teaching
Blood: Anidjar, Foucault, and Teaching Romanticism
A friend and I have begun reading Gil Anidjar’s Blood: A Critique of Christianity (2014). It’s a daunting book, one that almost coerces, given its difficult yet
Reading Woolf: “. . . my usual method of recovery.”
From a letter to Elizabeth Bowen (12 January 1936): Thanks ever so much for sending the flowers which are in a great bunch in front
Reading Lacan, Teaching Anxiety
A student recently asked me if I would be willing to work with him on a one-credit directed study of Jacques Lacan’s Anxiety seminar. Though I
Mais qu’est-ce que c’était, ce que j’ai fait toute ma vie?
The question what is philosophy? can perhaps be posed only late in life [. . .] in a moment of quiet restlessness, at midnight, when there is
Deleuze on Teaching Solitary Happiness (L’abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze)
Deleuze tells Clare Parnet (near the end of “P for Professor”) of his preference for “movements” over “schools.” Here is what he says: For me,
Sketching a Present 