University Diaries
A professor of English describes American university life.
A professor of English describes American university life.
August 26, 2009 - 10:27pm
When I read that Ian Hacking, a Canadian philosopher, had won a big prize - the Holberg, worth close to a million dollars - I certainly knew the name, though I couldn't remember having read anything by him. His books were all over our house, scattered among shelves.
Mr UD, a political science professor, has long admired Hacking. I spent last night reading some Hacking to see why.
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August 21, 2009 - 6:51pm
Richard Poirier, man of letters, founding editor of the journal Raritan, and longtime Rutgers University English professor, has died.
July 18, 2009 - 7:07am
Leszek Kolakowski's death reminds us that Terry Eagleton's recent attack on the atheism of Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins is only the latest instance of a curious but now familiar trajectory, in which
July 15, 2009 - 6:08pm
Scott McLemee's recent consideration of the writer Isaac Rosenfeld in his IHE column, Intellectual Affairs, reawakens my own long fascination with Rosenfeld's life and work.
Scott titles his piece Dangling Man -- not only the name of Saul Bellow's first novel, but also a description of the sort of person Rosenfeld, Bellow's lifelong friend, turned out to be:
June 28, 2009 - 7:39pm
"One wants glimpses of the real," wrote Harold Brodkey in his last journal entry before his death. "One almost never gets the real thing," lamented Saul Bellow in his last novel, Ravelstein.
