“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Friday, January 6, 2012

Dinner with Pahl, Blevins, Lalonde, Malkmus, Rahman

That was an excellent panel, and I took a lot of notes. Steven Blevins, Floridian friend, was there and we went out to dinner with Jane Bennett's friend Katrin Pahl, who has published a most creative book on Hegel and emotion, something I hadn't expected to see done. It is really well put together and very unusual—I think it will have quite an impact. It's by no means your average Hegel book.

Suzanne Lalonde is to be congratulated for putting together such a fascinating and diverse panel. Hard to say what my favorite was as all the papers were just excellent (apart from mine of course : )

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