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Happy Thanksgiving 09

herrdramaturg wrote 4 days ago: Karl Valentin From all of us here, serving drama on Guam, to you, where ever you are. Keep hope aliv … more →

Tags: Correspondence, A Seat On The Aisle, hazlitt, yurt, voltaire, Aesthetics, G.E. Lessing, stanley richardson, Max Klinger

We Lose Another Giant: Kolakowski

herrdramaturg wrote 4 months ago: It is with great sadness and all due respect that we note the translation of Leszek Kolakowski out o … more →

Tags: history of ideas, Leszek Kolakowski, Main Currents of Marxism, Polish Writers

All Our Best on May Day

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Tags: Correspondence, Augustine of Hippo, Diderot, hazlitt, Hegel, Justice, Rousseau, The Wealth of Nations, Trotsky

Trotsky on Women2 comments

herrdramaturg wrote 7 months ago: We are pleased to announce that a considerable section of Trotsky’s writing on women and the f … more →

Tags: Correspondence, Pudenda Studies, Human Sexuality, yurt, Thomas Shadewell, Trotsky, Aesthetics, Christian Grabbe

Upon the Scholar as opposed to the Academic1 comment

herrdramaturg wrote 11 months ago: Dr. Johnson, in his Rasselas, has Imlac say “To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read … more →

Tags: Recommendations, Dr Johnson, scholars, Academics

Susan Sontag's Journals

herrdramaturg wrote 11 months ago: “I am alive..I am beautiful…what else is there?” The first volume (1947-1963) of a … more →

Tags: Recommendations, Correspondence, Pudenda Studies, susan sontag

Kingdoms Without Justice

herrdramaturg wrote 11 months ago: “”If this villainy [Kingdoms without Justice] wins so many recruits from the ranks of th … more →

Tags: Correspondence, Augustine of Hippo, St. Augustine, Justice

Chicago, Dichtung und Wahrheit

herrdramaturg wrote 11 months ago: “Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a larger scale? What are crim … more →

Tags: Recommendations, Augustine of Hippo, Chicago Politics, The City of God, goethe, Justice

World Shaking Events

herrdramaturg wrote 1 year ago: We have received a report, involving spontaneous combustion, regarding our Northeast Corridor corres … more →

Tags: Recommendations, Inanities, A Seat On The Aisle, Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Opera Criticism, Spontaneous Cumbustion

Well, What About Opera?3 comments

herrdramaturg wrote 1 year ago: Didn’t you think about this all summer long on Long Island, and didn’t you let your hair … more →

Tags: Recommendations, Inanities, Correspondence, Ulan Blator, Diderot, voltaire, Trotsky, Siberia, Soviet Civil War

Basil Bunting on Iran3 comments

herrdramaturg wrote 1 year ago: “Man’s life so little worth, do we fear to take or lose it? No ill companion on a journe … more →

Tags: Correspondence, death, bunting, mao, Pol Pot

Trotsky on Wall Street3 comments

herrdramaturg wrote 1 year ago: “…Let us take up the subject of violence. The land was taken, the factories were taken, … more →

Tags: Inanities, Wall Street, Red Women, Trotsky, Women in the Soviet Union

Metaphysical Horror on Wall Street2 comments

herrdramaturg wrote 1 year ago: For we on Guam Island it began with the rumor that George W. Bush was reading J.L. Austin’s Ho … more →

Tags: Inanities, Correspondence, A Seat On The Aisle, voltaire, Berlin Wall, Wall Street, hysteria, metaphysics, The Communist Manifesto

Strike in Chaos3 comments

herrdramaturg wrote 1 year ago: Some of us here on Guam are fascinated to see the flagship of the US 6th Fleet off Poti, Georgia, in … more →

Tags: Recommendations, Correspondence, John Updike, John Ashbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Samuel Beckett, The Illiad, Pulitzer Prize, The Dark Knight

Do Fish Have Souls?

herrdramaturg wrote 1 year ago: We give you the following from G.W.F. Hegel: “…When James Bruce, on his journey to Abyss … more →

Tags: Correspondence, Add new tag, Aesthetics, Hegel, Abyssinia

Max Klinger on Der Zuschauer

herrdramaturg wrote 1 year ago: Dear Comrades, We have found it necessary to make some editorial changes in the journal. Ekaterina D … more →

Tags: Inanities, Correspondence, Putsch, Coup d'etat, Thomas Shadewell

Henry James on the Scenic Art1 comment

herrdramaturg wrote 1 year ago: Life is not always about the Sign and the Signified; sometimes it’s about having a sunburn and … more →

Tags: Correspondence, Add new tag, Henry James, theatre, Wind-Baggery

Hegel on the Sensuous Art for Mind3 comments

herrdramaturg wrote 1 year ago: “The work of art then, of course, presents itself to sensuous apprehension. It is addressed to … more →

Tags: Correspondence, Aesthetics, Hegel

Mrs. Inchbald Upon Gambling, Tragedy and Comedy

herrdramaturg wrote 1 year ago: From Her preface to Edward Moore’s tragedy, The Gamester. This tragedy is accounted of high mo … more →

Tags: Correspondence, Gambling, Comedy, tragedy, Foxwoods, Moheagan Sun


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