Tag Archives: Catharine Malabou

Surviving One’s Own Death – “The owl of Minerva flies only at dusk.” — G.W.F. Hegel

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

Huge props for Malabou (‘the best book on Hegel in twenty years’) offered by Slavoj Žižek. His discussion of Malabou begins at 5’20”. Douglas Crimp’s writings on the origin and purpose of the art museum (click), as a public institution, … Continue reading →

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History & Trauma ~ Civilization & Its Discontents

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

“I shall not recapitulate the disasters of the Alexandrian library,” Edward Gibbon writes in the fifty-first chapter of the The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The historian resolves, with these words, to remain silent about … Continue reading →

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