A Few Monday Fragments
Mostly on the depressing phenomenon that is academic philosophy today
[Mont Blanc massif captured with cheap camera after night of no sleep and much coffee, circa 1996]
A contemporary philosopher, a young hotshot at the University of Chicago, writes an essay that endeavors to explain how humans should approach death, art, evil. In it, in the midst of expert-sounding pronouncements on the phenomena, with lots of proper cit…