Word: kierkegaard
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...underlying academic or charitable purpose. Often it is as much work as a real job. Our desire to travel across Europe forces us to retrace the footsteps of Attila the Hun and write a travel narrative afterwards. If we want to lie around just doing nothing, it is because Kierkegaard once spent his summer lying around doing nothing, and we’re preparing an 80-page thesis on it. Perhaps we should blame Richard Henry Dana. In 1840, this Harvard student’s Two Years Before the Mast transformed his nightmarish apprenticeship aboard a sailing vessel into...
...throw those things out. Although the book is all highly autobiographical, in a sense, most of the events are invented.THC: n+1 has been notable for its unapologetic willingness to address theory. In this book, you frequently allude to and often explicitly mention several big thinkers, from Rorty to Kierkegaard to Hegel. Could you talk a little about your decision to directly discuss theory and philosophy in the novel instead of keeping them the background and letting them inform your writing? KG: You get more names in the beginning of the book than...
...years. I have two kids who I'm very devoted to. I've portrayed a neurotic personality with such effectiveness that people think that I'm actually neurotic or learned or intellectual. [But] I'm a beer-drinking, television-watching, T-shirt jerk at home. Not someone ensconced in Kierkegaard and Spinoza...
...library’s atmosphere makes a Sisyphus of every present student. They strive for new knowledge even as the steady crush of clammy air and ambition-on-Adderall inexorably overwhelms them. Even as one seeks to comprehend Kierkegaard upon entering Lamont, he will leave knowing only that philosopher’s existential despair...
...include, among many others, the heroic man of many devices that Homer presents to us in the character of Odysseus, the phronimos, or person of practical wisdom, portrayed by Aristotle, the Christ figure as presented in the New Testament or as interpreted by Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Luther, Milton, Pascal, Kierkegaard, and Dostoyevsy (to name but a few), the committed friend valorized by Montaigne, the citizen of the Kingdom of Ends described by Kant, the free spirit praised by Nietzsche, and so on. A similarly lengthy list could be compiled of those figures—from Lucifer to Macbeth, from Ivan...