Tag Archives: David Hume

copernicus: voyage to some distant planets

Copernicus argued that the earth was merely one of several planets that circled the sun. It was the Copernican Revolution and it displaced man from the center of the universe. It was the first flowering of the first stirrings of … Continue reading

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oh boswell! …assailed by the evening effluvia

In 1785 James Boswell published the journey of his tour of Scotland with Dr. Samuel Johnson. By the following year Samuel Collings and Thomas Rowlandson had produced a fine satire on it, which Boswell received in “good Humour.” The engravings … Continue reading

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who can like the highlands?

Or so asked Dr. Johnson after James Boswell had dragged him from Edinburgh to Inverness to Skye and back to the Lowlands. Boswell could, and soon set about immortalizing the tour. … Among the arts of life, Jean Cocteau once … Continue reading

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joan : weigh the small advance, there is still a chance

The Monarchist movement, the romantic movement, the spiritualist movement, the liberation movement, the communist movement; Joan of Arc has passed through all of them wit the ease and aplomb that one would expect of a light stepping, free-floating saint. From … Continue reading

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joan of liberty and fraternity and convenience

Joan of Arc. From compromising circumstance in the life of Charles VII, to be forgotten as soon as possible to subsequent resurrection and refashioning into useful symbol… The French Revolution was a decisive event in the development of the reputation … Continue reading

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saint joan of kitsch: kicking the rehab can

The Protestants of the sixteenth century saw Joan of Arc as the Joan of the Rehabilitation “tainted with idolatry,” identified with Church and King. They destroyed every representation of her upon which they could lay their hands. Swedes in the … Continue reading

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joan of arc as my bellona: a strumpet of a pucelle?

Poor Joan of Arc. Her trial and execution were only the beginning in the saga of the fluctuations of Joan’s fame that has run the gamut from anger and awe, skepticism and adoration… Since the Rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, … Continue reading

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a motionless world of time between

Jean Jacques Rousseau and his Noble Savage. The supposed “enlightened” thinking, of liberal democratic godfathers like David Hume and Immanuel Kant filled with racist delusions. At the opposing spectrum is a Martin Heidegger and the counter-enlightenment which was basically philosophic … Continue reading

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hume: a fire hose in paradise

Our tradition of the Enlightenment. Secularism and at least partly a sectarian quarrel with religion. They could never fairly assess the contours of Christian thought, art and humanitarianism and in so doing opened the door to the counter Enlightenment which … Continue reading

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foiled hopes

The Enlighenment. The Age of the Enlightenment. The name of an age, the eighteenth century all across Europe and the colonies in the New World and the name of a movement that pervaded and came to dominate that age: a … Continue reading

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