Literary theorist Stanley Fish has a fun read, ”Is There a Text in this Class?” Do read it, but for the sake of the post, here is my own summary: Language is situational. You cannot separate a statement’s meaning from its situation. Thus, meta-truths=asituational truths=useless to people (for they are constantly situation-bound). People accuse him of [...]
Archive for February, 2010
February 25, 2010
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Saint Augustine and a Language Analogy
By Kenny Gradert in WordsIn his Confessions, St. Augustine uses language as an interesting analogy for the totality of creation when grounded in the Creator.
In Book IV, Augustine laments the wild years of his young adult life, regretting the value he placed in the sensual world as determined by “the flesh.” Although one may be tempted to attack Augustine [...]
Tags: analogy, augustine, confessions, Creation, creator, language, movement
February 19, 2010
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Desire and the Subject/Object Distinction
By Matt Gerrelts in DesireWhat does Hegel mean by Desire? Most simply, Hegel says that “desire is self-consciousness,” but the natural question in following that is: what is self-consciousness? Or, for that matter, what is consciousness? I have not read enough Hegel to claim anything more than the most amateur level of expertise on this, and the answer is [...]
Tags: Consciousness, Desire, hegel, Object, Self-Consciousness, Subject
February 14, 2010
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Sunday Sundries
By Robert Minto in SundriesThree excellent posts from Memoria Dei (which is shaping up to be a really excellent theo-blog): Ways to be theologically Heideggerian, Reading the Medievals as Philosophers, Teaching Anselm’s Proslogion.
Halden asks, is it significant that Paul calls the church the bride and not the wife of Christ?
Thomas Bridges offers an hilarious Schleiermacherian version of Amazing Grace.
Finally, [...]
Tags: amazing grace, anselm, halden, lizard, medievals, memoria, proslogion, secret caves, Sundries, thomas bridges
February 11, 2010
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Education and Rhetoric and Love
By jlkroeze in EducationThomas H. Groome writes something to the effect that a very important aspect of education is time, that we are pilgrims in time, and that responsible pilgrims remember to initiate those who have had less time on their pilgrimage. Niebuhr focuses on a Christian interpretation for a history that will not demand we progress into [...]
Tags: Education, Love, philosopher gardener, spanish
February 10, 2010
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Desire: Of or For the Infinite?
By Matt Gerrelts in DesireThis week’s reading has brought me back to the well-worn yet still at least superficially complex world of Hegel’s Infinite. Hegel is the kind of writer that I think I understand when reading him and about him, but when I go to explain him, I inevitably stumble. Nevertheless, here I will venture a few thoughts [...]
Tags: Desire, Finite, hegel, Infinite, Infinity, Levinas, Other
February 9, 2010
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[Late] Introduction: Jacob Kroeze
By jlkroeze in Blogging, Prospects, RetrospectsAs I sit down in the computer room (and not the editing bay, mind you) of the Los Angeles Film Studies Centered where my wife, Piper, is trying to jump into the network of the “Film Industry,” I feel prodigal. I haven’t introduced myself to this wonderful blogging group’s readers, though my name has [...]
Tags: History, knowledge, Narrative, religious education, spanish education
February 6, 2010
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Poetry and Desire
By Matt Gerrelts in Death, DesireMy readings this week on desire delved into the relationship of desire to language and poetry, which have been recent fascinations of mine due to my studies of Paul Ricoeur. In poetry, or metaphor, there is an inherent excess of meaning through which language develops or gains new meanings. In a metaphor, or poetry, one [...]
February 3, 2010
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A Follow-up to “On Learning to Write”
By Robert Minto in RhetoricA reader of this post wrote to ask me what I have against “how to write” books, and Strunk & White in particular. Over at The Anti-moderate, I answered.
Tags: how to write books
