More specifically concerning: mythology
Crambe repetita (9)
21 May 2004, around 7.20.
Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband.
on biography (3)
8 February 2013, around 0.02.
Karl Popper & Michel Foucault looking suitably philosophical. After reading Didier Eribon’s biography of Foucault, I turned with some relief to Karl Popper’s memoir Unended Quest. The biography of Foucault was maddening because it did what good biographies should do, and didn’t speculate, especially where speculation was warranted. Popper, meanwhile, positively disinvites speculation. There’s nothing […]