I am still trying to understand the 18th century and do not. This, however, is an interesting article with an interesting author: Between Enlightenment and Romanticism: Some Problems and Challenges in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics, Kristin Gjesdal, Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 46, 2-2008, 285-306. I now understand why to be on Academia.edu: people put … More Kristin Gjesdal and the cutting edge
9-9:30 e-mail 11:30 – 4:30 technical issues, more e-mail and website updating, office and file reorganization, student paper reorganizing, book finding and returning, Skype Clarissa. Most of this involved teaching, and there was a little service and a little research. There was also a 30 minute break. This means 5 hours of inefficient work so … More Working Wednesday
In the fall, I teach to the language requirement and give a senior/graduate seminar that is in field for me but never for the students, so everything is a struggle. In the spring I teach intermediate and slightly advanced undergraduate courses, mostly out of field. It feels like curating a culture museum. Today we among … More Spring Culture Museum
This is what my clique from junior high school has done. Two of us, including one servidora, were tracked to Ivies, two to state R1s, and one to the CSU system. Tracked to Ivies: went to state R1 that was public Ivy. 1 Ph.D. obscure professor, 1 B.B.A. worked, married, dropped out, raised family, is … More Et les amis de votre génération?
I am trying to understand the 18th century and I do not. It is foreign. Sugar ruled the 18th century. Look at about minute 24. Then is now. Current political organizing techniques were invented by the British anti-slavery movement. Corporate strategies were counter-organizing by the sugar industry. Axé.
9-6 grade, prepare, teach, with 2 15 minute coffee breaks and 1 30 minute lunch break, total 8 hours. Commentary: if I put more thought into preparing the reading class, it would be more lively and people would learn more; the culture class is perfect but that is because these are things I know about … More Work tracking Tuesday
Day 1 – 9 hours TEACHING Day 2 – 3 hours TEACHING, 4 hours SERVICE Day 3 – 9 hours TEACHING Day 4 – 2 hours SERVICE, .5 hours RESEARCH Day 5 .5 hours RESEARCH Day 6 – 2 hours RESEARCH Day 7 – 5 hours TEACHING, 1 hour RESEARCH Total TEACHING: 26 hours … … More Work tracking summary in a bad week
They can now test us for drugs, investigate our credit scores and records of civil suits such as divorce cases, and more. But if they really wanted to know about me, they should give me a personality test. These and horoscopes are the most accurate ways to measure my deep motivations and true being. I … More Test
Look at this. There were 18M unnatural deaths in the 18th century and this is a low figure relative to total population, compared to the 19th and the 20th centuries. However, it does not mean the 18th century was more peaceful since natural death occurred so much earlier in those days. There are people dedicating … More Statistics of Wars, Oppressions and Atrocities of the Eighteenth Century
In a week I spend much less time working than I had thought, because a great deal of the work I do — work that blends somehow into university work — is actually on house and family. And almost all my work at work goes to teaching. I had thought the drain from research time … More Work tracking, day 7
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