Studies in a Dying Culture

[Deepening Democracy in Global Contexts, Chapter One] Achieving Our Country, Achieving Our World: Baldwin, Rorty, and Social Hope Judith M. Green, Fordham University If anything shows up the ideological nature and ultimate uselessness of pragmatism, this review does, first, by exposing the selective attention, nostalgia, myth-making and wish-fulfillment upon which Rorty’s social vision rests, and [...]

Robert Vienneau’s blog Thoughts on Economics has an entry Wittgenstein and Marxism on my Wittgenstein, Marxism, Sociology: An Annotated Bibliography. More importantly, Vienneau provides his own bibliography Wittgenstein and Soviet Communism, mostly in connection with Piero Sraffa and referencing articles from New Left Review. There is also this noteworthy article: Robinson, Christopher C. (2006). “Why [...]

27 March 2007: Glaude: He is a professor of religion at Princeton University, “with research interests that include African American religious history and its place in American public life. Glaude was mentored by Dr. Cornel West as a Princeton grad student and has written/edited several books. In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics [...]

I wrote this on 15 January 2007, Martin Luther King’s birthday: Tavis Smiley interviews Cornel West, Jan 12, 2007 Cornel blurbs Tavis: I think that when it comes to mass media, this particular show enacts the legacy because what you have been able to do, Tavis. The reason why I believe you’re the most brilliant [...]

I just discovered that paremiology is the study of proverbs. Without naming this as a field of study myself, in one way or another I’ve occupied myself with this genre. Perhaps my first contact with what others had to say about it was through Esperanto. Zamenhof, who created the language, authored a book, Proverbaro, which [...]

Eagleton, Terry; Jarman, Derek; Butler, Ken. Wittgenstein: The Terry Eagleton Script, the Derek Jarman Film. London: BFI Publishing, 1993. The actual video is as a practical matter inaccessible, but it is listed for sale: Wittgenstein (1993). Wittgenstein is a figure of fascination and admiration for many, but the more I learn about him, the more [...]

Here I list journal, magazine, and news articles and miscellaneous materials of note. Frankfurt School New German Critique, no. 97, Winter 2006, special issue on "Adorno and Ethics." This interesting issue requires a separate treatment. Elswhere I have reviewed two essays: Jay, Martin. “Taking On the Stigma of Inauthenticity: Adorno’s Critique of Genuineness,” pp. 15-30. [...]

Here I am listing all or parts of books I read since my November Reading Review not reviewed in other blog entries, as of the end of January.  I will write lengthier reports on some of these as time permits.  MAD’s Dave Berg Looks at Modern Thinking, written and illustrated by Dave Berg, edited by [...]

With this post, I am attempting to switch this blog from Blogger to WordPress and locate it on my own web site. Please bear with me as I configure the new format. To see my previous posts on Blogger in their original format and full functionality, go to: http://studiesinadyingculture.blogspot.com/ The new blog location is designated: [...]

“. . . the Americans are worlds behind in all theoretical things, and while they did not bring over any medieval institutions from Europe they did bring over masses of medieval traditions, English common (feudal) law, superstition, spiritualism, in short every kind of imbecility which was not directly harmful to business and which is now [...]