The Mourning Cloak
transformation & rebirth
recent posts
- Birthquake: The Literary After-Shocks of the Great Kantō Earthquake in Arthur M. Mitchell’s “Disruptions of Daily Life.”
- Looking Good: A Review of Yasuda’s Beauty Matters.
- Unanchored Reason: Gaston Bachelard and Surrealist Philosophy.
- (Positive) Vibrations
- Loving in the Wreckage: Salvaging Liberal Theology.
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I think it is a disaster that my students grow up in sheer ignorance of the Bible… I should have devoted myself to this, but by vanity and fate I became a philosopher. I thought it wasn’t my calling. Today I see that a Bible lesson is more important than a lesson on Hegel. A…
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Red Rosa:On Economic Expansion and Militarism. Works Reviewed: . Luxemburg, Rosa. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg. Volume 1: Economic Writings 1. Edited by Peter Hudis. Translated by David Fernbach, Jospeh Fraccia, and George Shriver. New York: Verso, 2013., 596 pages. Rosa Luxemburg appears to us today, in the gauzy film of hindsight, not so…
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Works Reviewed: B.R. Ambedkar. Annihilation of Caste. New York: Verso, 2014. “Ambedkar was Gandhi’s most formidable adversary. He challenged him not just politically or intellectually, but also morally. To have excised Ambedkar from Gandhi’s story, which is the story we all grew up on, is a travesty. Equally, to ignore Gandhi while writing about Ambedkar…
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Works Reviewed: Susan Buck-Morss. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. 151 pages. “The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of dusk.” The twilight shade with which Hegel cast his work, at least here, lends an aura of sad nobility to the pursuit of philosophy. The pallor of grey in…
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