Tag: LASA2014

Other sides of modernity

02/09/2013

There was Spinoza, contra Descartes and perhaps contra Kant. Explain/explore the possibility of not having the mind/body split. There was the counter-Enlightenment but what about critiques of Enlightenment that are not dully postmodern? Modernity carries values like authenticity, and believes in foundations, whereas the postmodern does not. This is why I am far more modernist … More Other sides of modernity

Tight

01/09/2013

Jonathan may not have one weird trick for being a successful academic but I do: make very limited plans for what you can say in any conference presentation. In order to be sure to get into the MLA and LASA, I used to write these paper proposals which were really book proposals. Then they were … More Tight