Eric
@ericdesq.bsky.social
spiritual kingdom aestheticism,
fin de siècle art and literature,
Die Lebenswelt
fin de siècle art and literature,
Die Lebenswelt
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Are you pissed off at scientism? Not nearly pissed off enough!
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Are you pissed off at scientism? Not nearly pissed off enough!
I just put this banger on the bluetooth speaker to get everyone in the house pumped.
open.spotify.com/track/4dEKmw...
open.spotify.com/track/4dEKmw...
The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in E Major, Op. 8 No. 1, RV 269 "Spring": I. Allegro
open.spotify.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I just put this banger on the bluetooth speaker to get everyone in the house pumped.
open.spotify.com/track/4dEKmw...
open.spotify.com/track/4dEKmw...
I love the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues. I will say more about this particular one later; but I highly recommend it.
youtu.be/26uhO7W2fIA?...
youtu.be/26uhO7W2fIA?...
The Quiet Revolution and the New Theism. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
YouTube video by Mark Vernon
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I love the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues. I will say more about this particular one later; but I highly recommend it.
youtu.be/26uhO7W2fIA?...
youtu.be/26uhO7W2fIA?...
Reposted by Eric
Anyone read Conrad’s Under Western Eyes?
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Anyone read Conrad’s Under Western Eyes?
Anyone read Conrad’s Under Western Eyes?
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Anyone read Conrad’s Under Western Eyes?
N.B.: Husserl was right before the continental and analytic distinction and his philosophy has characteristics of both of these expressions. Edward Baring shows how “Continental” philosophy was philosophy in Europe receiving and responding to phenomenology and its embrace by Catholic theologians.
November 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
N.B.: Husserl was right before the continental and analytic distinction and his philosophy has characteristics of both of these expressions. Edward Baring shows how “Continental” philosophy was philosophy in Europe receiving and responding to phenomenology and its embrace by Catholic theologians.
Phenomenology Friday
Story: I have a friend who every time I talk to him about phenomenology he yells “yeah, Habermas!” at me as if Habermas is a phenomenologist. I’ve told him more than once Habermas isn’t a phenomenologist; but he just can’t ever remember that.
Bless his heart.
Story: I have a friend who every time I talk to him about phenomenology he yells “yeah, Habermas!” at me as if Habermas is a phenomenologist. I’ve told him more than once Habermas isn’t a phenomenologist; but he just can’t ever remember that.
Bless his heart.
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Phenomenology Friday
Story: I have a friend who every time I talk to him about phenomenology he yells “yeah, Habermas!” at me as if Habermas is a phenomenologist. I’ve told him more than once Habermas isn’t a phenomenologist; but he just can’t ever remember that.
Bless his heart.
Story: I have a friend who every time I talk to him about phenomenology he yells “yeah, Habermas!” at me as if Habermas is a phenomenologist. I’ve told him more than once Habermas isn’t a phenomenologist; but he just can’t ever remember that.
Bless his heart.
another earthquake…
November 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
another earthquake…
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Norwegian artist Fritz Thaulow. - - “and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit,[1/3]
November 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Norwegian artist Fritz Thaulow. - - “and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit,[1/3]
another earthquake…
earthquake…
November 18, 2025 at 6:55 AM
another earthquake…
From Guy Stagg’s The Crossway.
November 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
From Guy Stagg’s The Crossway.
Former would-be academics should take note from the pages of history on monastic and mystical orders. In the middle ages, many eremitic monks reformed, quit begging, and started working. And some friars came in and put the monasteries to work. No more hermits and ivory towers.
November 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Former would-be academics should take note from the pages of history on monastic and mystical orders. In the middle ages, many eremitic monks reformed, quit begging, and started working. And some friars came in and put the monasteries to work. No more hermits and ivory towers.
But, no; the boys want relajo.
November 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
But, no; the boys want relajo.
On rejecting the man(child)-cave/drinking buddy lounge: in truth, one should instead have an exuberant salon for receiving friends & family, a refined study for the life of the mind, a formidable shop for building and crafting, a quaint dining area, and a well-stocked toy room for the kids!
November 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
On rejecting the man(child)-cave/drinking buddy lounge: in truth, one should instead have an exuberant salon for receiving friends & family, a refined study for the life of the mind, a formidable shop for building and crafting, a quaint dining area, and a well-stocked toy room for the kids!
Phenomenology Friday
New on my blog: I posted a paper I wrote earlier this year, “Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology of Sense and Non-Sense.” I’m pretty proud of it and plan to include it in a future edition of my book. It talks a little about Hegel; that’s an area I’m still planning on diving into further on a future blog post.
Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology of Sense and Non-Sense — Ontology and Sense
By Shea Stevens [An abstract of this paper was submitted to Chiasmi in 2025 but the abstract was not accepted for a full peer review nor was the author given feedback. The author chose to publish t...
www.ontologyandsense.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Phenomenology Friday
November 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I shall read Septology from Thanksgiving through Christmas. It has thus been recommended as a winter book.
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I shall read Septology from Thanksgiving through Christmas. It has thus been recommended as a winter book.
“Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.”
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
www.scottnewstok.com/montaigne
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
www.scottnewstok.com/montaigne
How to Teach Children by Michel de Montaigne — Scott Newstok
www.scottnewstok.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
“Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.”
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
www.scottnewstok.com/montaigne
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
www.scottnewstok.com/montaigne
all the different chess moves:
- try to start a war with Venezuela
- drop thousands of new bombshell Epstein files
- do some press interviews saying aliens are real
- give everyone $2,000
youtu.be/ryleWEOMOWM?...
- try to start a war with Venezuela
- drop thousands of new bombshell Epstein files
- do some press interviews saying aliens are real
- give everyone $2,000
youtu.be/ryleWEOMOWM?...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
all the different chess moves:
- try to start a war with Venezuela
- drop thousands of new bombshell Epstein files
- do some press interviews saying aliens are real
- give everyone $2,000
youtu.be/ryleWEOMOWM?...
- try to start a war with Venezuela
- drop thousands of new bombshell Epstein files
- do some press interviews saying aliens are real
- give everyone $2,000
youtu.be/ryleWEOMOWM?...