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“The dear woman is having an orgasm over a bracelet: Get her a man!” [Meditation on Money, Inheritance Tax, and the Deeper Aesthetic Pleasures of Jewelry]
My eccentric, literary, retired lawyer/economist FB friend, sailing around the world and currently cruising the American Samoa, does not understand many things in life. He has done everything from climbing tall mountains to biking long distances to riding champion dressage … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Lifestyle, Philosophy, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged aesthetic pleasure, bernard williams, diamond nexus labs, ethics, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, inheritance tax, jewelry, kant, orgasms, poverty, psychology of money, sex, Swarovski, third critique, yale
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Gloomy Monday in Santa Barbara Brightened by Lunch at Fresco and Musings on the Literary-Critical Landscape of UCSB English in the 1990s (Another Victorian Chick Ars Critica)
Gloomy gray days don’t bother me; I find them oddly comforting and generally energizing but not today. I am loving the Trader Joe’s mango Greek Yogurt, 5.5 ounces and 120 calories and will go for a big swim and … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Literature, Philosophy, School, UCSB, Uncategorized
Tagged book reviews, books and arts, chaucer's books, christopher benfrey, claim of reason, cultural studies, depression, emily dickinson and the problem of others, ethical criticism aesthetics, fresco of santa barbara, grad school, henry james, in pursuit of the ordinary, julie carlson, kant, kantians, kay young, louise fradenberg, martha nussbaum, new criticism, new historicism, paul guyer, philadelphia junto, philip terzian, philosophy and literature, stanley cavell, ucsb, weekly standard, yale school of criticism
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“You seem so normal! What happened to you?”: A Partial, Intellectual Answer to a Frequent Question
I got an IM on FB from a very good friend up in Oregon, a Republican lawyer with a wife and children. He’s a smart and fun guy and we enjoy chatting on FB. He asked: “Did you get rescued … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Philosophy, Relationships, School, UCSB, Yale
Tagged aesthetics, analytic and continental philosophy, barbie dolls, beautiful, beauty, carol rovane, deconstruction, depression, dissertation writing, elizabeth bishop, feminist critics, gender studies, geoffrey hartman, grad school, kant, katherine philips, lacanian theory, letters on the aesthetic education of man, literary criticism, morality, on moral personhood, paul de man, paul fry, philosophical criticism, play, richard eldridge, sara suleri, schiller, wsecs conference
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Day 2 of Crutches, Final Day of APA… Great Kant Panel, Personal Identity, Some (Rare) Gay Stuff, and Irritating Feminist Theorists
I will start by saying I’m sorry for the conference to wind to a close, but not sorry to be leaving the Super 8 Motel, a real garden spot, next to the cheap Best Western which was sold out last … Continue reading
“Waiting for a Bus That’s Never Going to Come”: Loss, Desire and Redemption in Detroit 1 8 7 (Grad School, NYPD Blue Kantian Moments)
“Do you think most people don’t know who they are?” “I think, most people know exactly who they are and don’t want others to find out.” Detective Fitch (Imperioli) and Detective Sanchez. “I just figured I’d get a below market … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Literature, Philosophy, Relationships, St. Augustine, Television, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged carol rovane, detroit 1 8 7, henry james, james mcdaniel, kant, michael imperioli, nypd blue, personal identity, principles of pshychology, sopranos, steven bochco, william james
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Lazy Day: Cognitive and Moral Relativism, Preview of “British Truth and American Reality” (T.L.S. Sprigge), Irritating Fight with Older FB Intellectual
Well, I was so high when J left late for work today. I am reading American Truth and British Reality by T.L.S Sprigge, a book I bought probably in 2005 but never read. The beginning discusses the main areas of … Continue reading
Serious Note about the Powers of Art/ Validity of (Kant’s) Aesthetic Theory: Reflections on the Laughs and Tears of Sports Night
NOTE: THIS WAS WRITTEN JANUARY 19, 2011. I wished for it to appear on the blog wall rather than FB archives as it exemplifies the interpenetration of my intellectual life and my pop-cultural investments. Very few TV shows deserve the … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Facebook Notes, Literature, Philosophy, Relationships, Television, UCSB, Uncategorized
Tagged 1998-2000, aaron sorkin, aesthetic judgment, aesthetic objects, art, critique of judgment, depression, ethics, felicity huffman, george eliot, intentionality, josh charles, josh malina, kant, literary criticism, MA exam, martha nussbaum, peter krause, philosophical criticism, robert guillaume, robert pippin, subjective unity, swimming
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