Series Index John Ciardi’s Translation of the Commedia The Speech of the Saved I’ve taught Dante’s Purgatorio to three cohorts of upper-division literature students, and each time, the students do alright…

Series Index About the time Todd’s travel schedule allowed him to dig back into this series, my own summer travels picked up, and you know what that means: we just…

Series Index John Ciardi’s Translation of the Commedia Worthy of the Kingdom Dante couldn’t care less about my evangelical sensibility and sensitivities, and I love him for that. Even beyond the…

Series Index Introductions and the Introduction Transcendental Aesthetic and Introduction to Transcendental Logic Transcendental Synthesis Transcendental Analytic, Part I We now begin (at long last – summer is a time…

Series Index The final section of Philosophical Investigations brings the language-game approach to questions of ethics, and once again, the real benefit of reading and thinking about what Wittgenstein is…

Series Index John Ciardi’s Translation of the Commedia Hypocrites and Church-Thieves Living seven hundred years after Dante’s poetic career makes the final stretch of Inferno a particular philosophical challenge, largely because…

Series Index Philosophical Investigations, as I read it, doesn’t have a thesis so much as it explores both the limits of stating theses and the limits of denying the need…

Series Index John Ciardi’s Translation of the Commedia The Democratization of American Sins One popular topic for invention among youth-group kids in the mid-nineties (and I was one for a spell)…

Series Index Philosophical Investigations was the reading and discussion matter for a group of students and faculty at Emmanuel College during the 2014-15 school year, under the auspices of the Emmanuel…

Series Index In case you’re just tuning in, or in case you’ve forgotten what a Wittgenstein Wednesday is, some faculty and students got together every couple weeks during the 2014-15…

The Christian Humanists respond to listener emails. [0:00] An announcement from David Grubbs! [5:05] Why Christian Existentialism? [9:12] Kierkegaard and Christendom [17:41] John McAdams and academic freedom [27:09] More holy…

Waiting for the Conservative John Stewart The Progressive Death of Comedy When I say that I find both twenty-first-century American political factions unpalatable, please don’t take me to mean that…

Series Index A few months passed between installments seven and eight of this series, so for the sake of those who might come across this later, I’ll just say that…

In its historical particularity tragedy had its first great moment in ancient Athens, when didaskaloi, educators, would compete for civic recognition staging increasingly elaborate exchanges of dramatic speeches.  And once…

Series Index Introductions and the Introduction Transcendental Aesthetic and Introduction to Transcendental Logic Transcendental Synthesis When Critique of Pure Reason (hereafter CPR–Todd had a good idea with that one) starts…