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Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Tales of Death and ‘Junior Devils’


Readings

Lucian, The Downward Journey

C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters



Background

Goethe, Faust



Recommended 

Smith, “Account of the Death of David Hume, Esq.” 

Babich, “Signatures and Taste”

Mancini, “Twelve Things You Might Not Know”

Zipes, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Harry Potter, and Why Magic Matters” 




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Babette Babich (PhD: Boston College), Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University in New York City. She has taught at Juilliard and the School of Visual Arts, NYC as well as the University of California at San Diego, Georgetown University, Stony Brook University, including Stony Brook Manhattan, Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen and the Humboldt Universität, Berlin, etc.. Among other books, she is author of The Hallelujah Effect: Music, Performance Practice, and Technology (2016 [2013]), Words in Blood, Like Flowers (2006) in addition to books in French and German. Her edited collective volumes include Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science (2017) and Reading David Hume’s »Of the Standard of Taste« (2019). She is also founding editor of the journal, New Nietzsche Studies.
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