Innigkeit (nach außen)Looking out on Union Bay amid the last dying light of the December sun, a creeping coldness limns my toes. This, I am reminded, is what...
My own weird hymn How can individuality have any meaning at all if not through shared language and culture? In short, we need each other in order to be ourse
Found in translationWe typically think of translation as an imperfect medium for expressing ideas. We might think that the intangible but important human elemen
The truth within the illusion: on the interplay of music, perception, and ethicsIllusion makes us question what we perceive to be real, what we might otherwise uncritically accept in the world as given to us. The truth o
Thoughts on the end of the worldThe end of the world has been on my mind lately. In the city where I live, Seattle, this summer saw dramatic differences in the climate;...
On antinomiesTo what extent are thinkers of an analytic bent justified in dismissing the idea that there is something on the order of what Adorno...