Tag Archives: Jacques Derrida

Philosophical Friendship

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

But what would that be like? Sadly, most of us will never know. But if life itself is good and pleasant (which it seems to be, from the very fact that all men desire it, and particularly those who are … Continue reading →

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The Sense of an Ending – Kant, Race, Parenthyrsis and The Shock of Enlightenment

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

Student: I want to post a passage from Kant’s Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime (1764), one dealing with the character of non-European races. If we examine the relation of the sexes in these parts of … Continue reading →

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The Myth of Self-Discovery, Self-Improvement and Self-Expression: Finger Painting, Auto-Mutilation, and the Birth of the Signature

Posted on April 6, 2011 by

Claude Levi-Strauss was well known as a cultural structuralist anthropologist. But what about physical structuralist anthropology? That was a field of research explored and expanded by Andre Leroi-Gourhan, an anthropologist held in very high esteem in France, though his name … Continue reading →

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