Category Archives: concepts

Le vagabondage de la raison : Proust et la pensée de l’essai selon Adorno

Posted on 10/08/2014 by lexipenia

I’ve got an article appearing in the Bulletin d’informations proustiennes this October discussing Proust’s essayism in relation to Adorno. PDF of the proofs for anyone interested.

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Brandom on genealogy and semantic naiveté

Posted on 25/06/2014 by lexipenia

Last week, Berlin played host to a great conference on Robert Brandom, specifically the Hegel book that’s been appearing on his website over the last few years. The line-up was impressive: John McDowell, Robert Pippin and Terry Pinkard all presented, … Continue reading →

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“How Should a Person Be?”: Sheila Heti’s imaginative philosophy

Posted on 07/04/2014 by lexipenia

I have a piece up at The Point on “imaginative philosophy” in Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be? This is an attempt to put into practice the kind of reading implied by Cora Diamond’s work on meta-ethics and literature, … Continue reading →

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F.H. Bradley’s ‘On Truth and Coherence’ (1909): A Reading with Wilfrid Sellars

Posted on 30/03/2013 by lexipenia

We meet here a false doctrine largely due to a misleading metaphor. My known world is taken to be a construction built upon such and such foundations. It is argued, therefore, to be in principle a superstructure which rests upon … Continue reading →

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