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The Notes Taken: What's Next?
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Book reviews on politics, philosophy, art and fiction. About Devin Zane Shaw. Wednesday, July 22, 2015. In the last two weeks, I've completed two major writing projects. The first task was copy-editing Egalitarian Moments. Rereading the text reminded me that I should get more efficient at following up on suggestions that I make in the footnotes, but that I don't pursue in the text itself- those claims preceded by the caveat that pursuing such a claim is beyond the scope of the present study. It's an impo...
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The Notes Taken: Call for Papers: Public Ethics after Humanism
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Book reviews on politics, philosophy, art and fiction. About Devin Zane Shaw. Tuesday, September 23, 2014. Call for Papers: Public Ethics after Humanism. Public ethics after humanism. Centre “man” and concentrate on what enmeshes and sustains. Foucault declared the death of “man”, he had in mind the human as privileged object of the social sciences, calling for a new science that would truly do justice to the human beings that we are. The conference “Antihumanism and Public Ethics” will take ...2015 The ...
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The Notes Taken: September 2014
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Book reviews on politics, philosophy, art and fiction. About Devin Zane Shaw. Tuesday, September 23, 2014. Call for Papers: Public Ethics after Humanism. Public ethics after humanism. Centre “man” and concentrate on what enmeshes and sustains. Foucault declared the death of “man”, he had in mind the human as privileged object of the social sciences, calling for a new science that would truly do justice to the human beings that we are. The conference “Antihumanism and Public Ethics” will take ...2015 The ...
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The Notes Taken: Teaching Voluntary Servitude
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Book reviews on politics, philosophy, art and fiction. About Devin Zane Shaw. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. My first impulse was to arrange the readings as a debate about the valences and vagaries of consensus and dissensus, but I opted not to, since that distinction seemed to look backwards at a project I'd just completed. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, but I would prefer to teach without knowing the theoretical trajectory of the course in advance. Here's the course description:. Ed CB Macpherso...
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The Notes Taken: The Final Countdown
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Book reviews on politics, philosophy, art and fiction. About Devin Zane Shaw. Saturday, November 15, 2014. I know that very little has appeared on the blog during 2014. That's largely due- at least in my case- to the fact that I've been writing Egalitarian Moments: From Descartes to Rancière. These concluding remarks will in part respond to Peter Gratton's review of the book for Society and Space. Aims to uncover the singular moments of life unburdened by reified representative structures:. That has to b...
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The Notes Taken: December 2014
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Book reviews on politics, philosophy, art and fiction. About Devin Zane Shaw. Thursday, December 18, 2014. Or not. I'll admit that, given that I try to spend at least a week on each figure, the list isn't as diverse as it could be- but that's always balanced by the worry that if the student finds the non-traditional figures compelling, that he/she might not read them again in his/her philosophical training. This year, the picks:. Each year, I don't know if Marx belongs in the canon or critics. Du Bois ha...
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The Notes Taken: The Post-Kantian Poe
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Book reviews on politics, philosophy, art and fiction. About Devin Zane Shaw. From the Guest Editors. 8220;Theory Mad Beyond Redemption”: The Post-Kantian Poe. Sean Moreland, Jonathan Murphy and Devin Zane Shaw. This special issue of the Edgar Allan Poe Review. Is primarily intended to address these multifaceted engagements. A secondary impetus behind this collection has been to reconcile two competing tendencies in Poe scholarship: the antagonism between materially- and theoretically-oriented approa...
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The Notes Taken: Late Additions: Teaching
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Book reviews on politics, philosophy, art and fiction. About Devin Zane Shaw. Thursday, December 18, 2014. Or not. I'll admit that, given that I try to spend at least a week on each figure, the list isn't as diverse as it could be- but that's always balanced by the worry that if the student finds the non-traditional figures compelling, that he/she might not read them again in his/her philosophical training. This year, the picks:. Each year, I don't know if Marx belongs in the canon or critics. Du Bois ha...
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The Notes Taken: March 2015
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Book reviews on politics, philosophy, art and fiction. About Devin Zane Shaw. Thursday, March 5, 2015. Anti-Humanism and Public Ethics Program. Something that Matt and I will be participating in next week:. Thursday, March 12. 09:30 – 10:00. 10:00 – 10:05. Welcome, by Chantal Beauvais, Rector of Saint Paul University. 10:05 – 11:05. Marc De Kesel (Saint Paul University):. Between Sade and Labre: Modernity’s Impossible Humanism. Respondent: Andrew Pump (University of Ottawa). 11:05 – 11:15. Locating Anti-...
