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Claude Levi-Strauss

Friday, November 28, 2008

November 28, 1908 -
It would have been better had Foucault said, “Perhaps one day this century will be known as Levi-Straussian.”

Claude dit

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“the (all too vocal) vegetarian philosophy mafia”

Thursday, November 27, 2008

If only! There are a few other comments worth looking at on this topic, but none particularly insightful (par for the course at the site in question).
Of course, I’ve never interviewed for a philosophy job, but my experience of academic events suggests that food options for vegetarians – don’t even bother bringing up being a [...]

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Some Useful Spells

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Should you have vermin problems, you might be able to save a few hundred dollars by trying these spells instead of calling an exterminator.
Spell of pagan origin to get rid of field-mice reported by Cassianus Bassus:
Take a slip of paper and write on it these words: I adjure you, O mice, who dwell here not [...]

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Five Fun Books

Friday, November 14, 2008

William Ian Miller (2006) Eye for an Eye – the discussion of why a penis is worth three wergelds (a wergeld is a “man-price”) while the middle finger is the least valuable finger is worth the price of the book. Short answer, flipping the bird is obscene, but losing your dick in battle is even [...]

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Obama’s Victory: Pros and Cons

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Pro: no more Tina Fey as Sarah Palin skits.
Con: four – and possibly eight – more years of Fred Armisen.
This is what is known as a “win-lose” situation in conflict resolution.

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Begging for more help!

Sunday, November 2, 2008

I have the following two references from a text written in 1609 -

Fern. Meth. “Id malva peculiare est, ut imposita istibusvesparum & apum dolores levet. Fern. Meth. 1.6.cap.4. Stercus vaccinum vesparum itus sanat, & indite aceto tumores digerit. Fern. Meth. 1.5.cap.27.” The next line cites Dodoens’s Stirpum historae pemptabes sex (1587), so, presumably, Fern. Meth. [...]

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Publication Advice

Saturday, November 1, 2008

If you had edited a text – roughly of political theory – that has not been in print since the early eighteenth century and this editing involved the usual things: cross-referencing across a number of editions, tracking down the sources, finding translations, correcting errors, explaining obsolete or obscure terms, etc. Where would you seek to [...]

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New Carl Schmitt

Saturday, November 1, 2008

The University of Chicago Press continues its great public service of re-printing difficult to find, out of print, or expensive editions of Carl Schmitt’s works in affordable paperbacks. In October they re-printed The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: The Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol, with a new preface from Tracy [...]

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