Tag Archives: Montaigne

The Mouth before The Voice: Food, Fantasies, The Mother

Posted on January 24, 2012 by

Here’s a book review I wrote just this morning. Tangential though it may seem to our concerns, I hope it will help at least a few of you in your reading of Augustine. * * * It is wearisome to … Continue reading →

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Leo Steinberg: Gymnosophist

Posted on July 9, 2011 by

Gymnosophy: the doctrine of a sect of philosophers who practiced nudity and asceticism and meditation. Leo Steinberg is an acknowledged ‘genius,’ and his essay is widely regarded as a masterpiece. Perhaps the reason we don’t recognize it as such more … 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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