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Not necessarily a contradiction - all the irish writers i mentioned were Protestants - Maturin was a clergyman - apart from Mangan; as were Hogg and Stevenson. Dublin was a much more Protestant city in the late 18th/ early 19th centuries than at any time since; just as the German speaking (and...

Interesting that quite a few of the progenitors of Gothic fiction were Scottish or Irish (Hogg, Maturin, Stoker, LeFanu and later, RL Stevenson); have long held a theory that growing up in Edinburgh or Dublin post union, cities that were capitals and retained all of the apparatus of power - big...

Malick translated Heidegger's Vom Wesens der Grundes (as The Essence of Reasons) Northewestern 1969; he was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, where his supervisor was Gilbert Ryle; he wanted to work on Kierkegaard and heidegger and Ryle told him he should do real philosophy (something along those...

In "Brendan Behan's Island' he quote Lenin approvingly to the effect that the aim of all politics should be the abolition of the village idiot =- problem is, googling doesn't reveal a source, and i wouldn't put it past BB to invent it and attribute to Lenin for a bit of borrowed authority. can...

Re: Hamsun; agree completely concerning Hunger; try and read 'pan' and 'Mysteries' as well Re: John Doe's point about Victorian novelists setting their books earlier in the century than the time of writing - I guess you're right and I should have been more accurate in my earlier post; the Eliot...

it was shown in Dublin - one showing - last year; had ticket booked and all, then family emergency intervened; from reports -and from earnest Heidegerians too - it was as slow and long and opaque as the river of its title

veering off- topic a bit; at what age does a 'modern classic' become a 'classic' tout court? - my daughter was bracing herself to read Ulysses last week and i realised it was 30 odd years since i first tackled it - I read it in the 70s, 50 odd years after it was written and 70 years after the...

If Argentina keep playing like this it's their world cup, the way '70 was Brazil's or '74 was Holland's (i.e. even if they don't win it, thet'll be the team we remember)

In the course of my 'real' work last night, I was forced to be at an Eagles gig here in Dublin, in the course of which thay played a new song, which Henley - i think - said was started after 9/11 and was inspired by 'what we call Dubya's folly' i.e. the war on turrr - i was struck by two things...

here in Ireland nobody has been resisting very hard the temptation to find less than flattering adjectives for England's performance on Saturday; but actually, if you're going to do well, history suggests it's good to start badly..... sad to see Avery John sent off for T&T; as well as the fact...

Fred Jameson's 'Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism' is a good intro to lot of the debates both pro- and anti- Adorno - easier to read than any Adorno too; also essay by Habermas on the Dialectic of Enlightenment in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity

Rorty is nothing if not patronising, nearly all of the time (though he can be funny with it) re your quote at the end; this would seem as good a summary of the methods of such redoubtable AP figures as Wittgenstein and Austin as anything else - I wouldn't think it's necessarily a CP tactic -...

nothing like as unbearable as the automatic condescension hard wired in the English psyche though

Agree about the war trilogy, though the preceding sequence - At Lady Molly's/ Casanova's Chinese Restaurant/ The Kindly Ones - rivals it. The last three books do, I think, fall away a little from this high standard, always excepting 'Books do furnish a room' which is one of the best single...

Love Anthony Powell - a Dance to the Music of Time is my favourite English novel (not novel in English) bar none; but, despite numerous attempts, I've never really been able to get Henry Green, though I know I should ... With Powell, I am always reminded of a remark of Adorno's to the effect...

yeah, that's right actually - he also had a soft spot for the circus and the like as well

The short answer is that Adorno wouldn't think pop music was art - it's reified cultural production attempting to hitch a ride on the cultural weight of real music - art is precisely that which escapes the reifying effect of production and retains at least some of the qualities of unalienated -...

I'm not really sure Adorno thinks there is any relation between art and morality to be honest - what he does think is that art holds open the possibility of unalienated labour and therefore an image of a utopia, which, for Adorno, is the narrowest of pinpricks of light in the overwhelming...

This from Kant on the limitations of the domain of formal logic; 'That logic should have been thus successful is an advantage which it owes entirely to its limitations, whereby it is justified in abstracting ..... from all objects of knowledge and their differences, leaving the understanding...

i guess 'reasoning without logic' is not quite right....... I need to think about how to describe what i do mean later .... 'reasoning without logic' looks ridiculous now, of course; went back over the thread to see if I picked the phrase up from someone else along the way, but no such luck...