Main Themes I’m Working on Now…
Negation without Resentment
Nietzche’s problem was simply this: how do we constantly say No to the demands of a toxic culture without cultivating the ‘psychological problem’ of bitterness and ressentiment.
Eternal Recurrence
This isn’t really that hard to get. Physics is starting to catch up with it.
The second installment of my series of Reading Zarathustra. This focuses on the problem of teaching, discipleship, truth telling, and companionship in ‘The Speeches of Zarathustra’ from Book I.
The first in a commentary series on Thus Spoke Zarathustra. This post covers Zarathustra’s Prologue.
A collection of works on the physics, religion, philosophy, and history of how we’ve composed time
An exceptionally detailed and compelling investigation into the evolution of Greek philosophical thought out of myth.
One of the best explanations of Bergson’s thought. Lapoujade connects duration with motion and in the process exposes why Bergson’s thought is more than conceptual philosophy. It is the transformation of how we experience ourselves and the world.
Breton set in motion the philosophical and theological reconsideration of Paul (which was already underway in more scholarly investigations into ‘the historical Paul’). This book is crucial to the reconsideration of Paul that found in his letters the power to suspend the weight of culture to find ‘new horizons’ of salvational experience.
Michel Serres at his most political. This 1990 book is a defining work in the modern understanding of the climate crisis. I've written a long essay inspired by the depth and breadth of Serres vision.
Practices of Time in the New Testament
The Grand Narrative
How to see common things as compositions of time
When did the earth begin is a strange question. To trace its answer is to find oneself deeply entangled into the contingency of motions that make up the Grand Narrative of the cosmos.
An excerpt from my essay on Michel Serres’ The Parasite. Words are not things. They are contingencies of motion with a very long history of working out the details.
Chronology
A running list of posts
Reading Zarathustra: The Three Metamorphoses
The three metamorphoses Zarathustra describes in his first speech after the prologue moves us beyond any knee-jerk philosophical and religious musings of ‘being and becoming’. The vision presented here is far more sophisticated.
Reading Zarathustra: The Speeches of Zarathustra
The second installment of my series of Reading Zarathustra. This focuses on the problem of teaching, discipleship, truth telling, and companionship in ‘The Speeches of Zarathustra’ from Book I.
Reading Zarathustra: Prologue
The first in a commentary series on Thus Spoke Zarathustra. This post covers Zarathustra’s Prologue.
Time and Theodicy
Religion and philosophy emerge when we descend into our experience of time