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• Philosophy Weekend: Heidegger on Art
  (A few weeks ago, guest blogger Tim Hawken wrote about Immanuel Kant’s aesthetic theory. Here’s his second Philosophy Weekend piece, on a related subject. Hawken lives in Australia and is the author of ‘I Am Satan‘ and ‘Hellbound‘.) You arrive at a contemporary art show with a friend. Excited about the new and interesting things …
• Cruelty, Revolution, and Deviance: Rimbaud and Artaud as Ideology Critique
  “We have faith in poison. We will give our lives completely every day. FOR THIS IS THE ASSASINS’ HOUR.” — Arthur Rimbaud, “Drunken Morning” “The revolution was in his poetry from the beginning and to the end: as a preoccupation of a technical order, namely to translate the world into a new language.” — Herbert …
• Philosophy Weekend: The Elusive Self
  Why do the models we use to understand the human mind often seem so shallow, so unsatisfying? Could it be because the great discoveries in this field have not been made yet? Plato wrote of the mind in a cave, groping towards the light. Sigmund Freud broke the mind down into three components, Id and …
• Philosophy Weekend: Ellen Pearlman on Buddhism and the Avant-Garde
  Exactly sixty years ago, in May 1952, 81-year-old Zen Buddhist scholar D. T. Suzuki began teaching a regular course at Columbia University. 39-year-old modernist composer John Cage attended a few of his lectures, and this is the electric point of contact that starts everything buzzing in Nothing and Everything – The Influence of Buddhism on …
• Drawing Finnegan
  James Joyce’s experimental masterwork Finnegans Wake gets a visual treatment by Jason Novak in the Paris Review. Novak wastes little time pondering the novel’s meaning or plotline, noting that it “begins halfway through its final sentence” (indeed, it does). Myself, I’ve never been able to actually finish reading Joyce’s grand gesture to introspective modernism … …
• Philosophy Weekend: Cervantes and Descartes
  I probably skim 150 to 200 blog posts or articles a day, prompted by RSS and Facebook and Twitter. The headlines usually fly by without leaving a trace, but I skimmed one two weeks ago, then returned to it a few days later to read it in full, and found myself thinking about it ever …
• Philosophy Weekend: Kant on Beauty
  (Today’s blog post is by a guest philosopher, Tim Hawken, who lives in Western Australia and is the author of two novels, ‘I Am Satan‘ and ‘Hellbound‘. Tim holds a Bachelor of Arts from Deakins University with a triple major in Philosophy, Literature and Journalism. The image of an Immanuel Kant tattoo is by Aron …
• Philosophy Weekend: Kierkegaard’s Birthday
  What do you buy a morose Danish philosopher who invented Existentialism for his 200th birthday? It doesn’t really matter anymore, since Soren Aabye Kierkegaard is dead. He died at the young age of 42, already at this time a mostly broken man, an obsessive writer, a lonely bachelor, and a frequent subject of popular ridicule. …
• Philosophy Weekend: Images of Ukraine
  I’ve been trying to philosophize about the Ukranian crisis in real time. This is always hazardous. Last Saturday morning, February 22, I invited readers to look at six images representing the history of Ukraine and to suggest three more that help fill out the story we are trying to understand. The idea was to try …