dilettantescholar.blogspot.com
Dilettante Scholar: Richard Neustadt, Presidential Power: Chapter 9, "Appraising a President"
http://dilettantescholar.blogspot.com/2012/05/richard-neustadt-presidential-power.html
Notes and comments on books I'm reading. Sunday, May 6, 2012. Richard Neustadt, Presidential Power: Chapter 9, "Appraising a President". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Blogs about reading books, mostly. Nigerian Romance Literature Revisited. Head-Banging Through the Weeds. Interviews on Red Square in December 1991 by Svetlana Alexievich. Archive Fervor: Some Thoughts on Blumenberg’s Nachlass. Miklós Szentkuthy’s Marginalia on Casanova. Coming out of the Cave. Around and about the world.
dilettantescholar.blogspot.com
Dilettante Scholar: Hans Blumenberg, Paradigms for a Metaphorology: Chapter 9, "Metaphorized Cosmology"
http://dilettantescholar.blogspot.com/2012/02/hans-blumenberg-paradigms-for.html
Notes and comments on books I'm reading. Sunday, February 19, 2012. Hans Blumenberg, Paradigms for a Metaphorology: Chapter 9, "Metaphorized Cosmology". Copernicus's geocentric model provoked a reassessment of metaphors relating to man's stature. While for some, like Goethe, the implication was a vindication of man's dignity as a being able to think freely, most, like Nietzsche, have seen it (although not necessarily with the same glee) as displacing man from a privileged position in the cosmos. Galileo ...
dilettantescholar.blogspot.com
Dilettante Scholar: Roy Jenkins, Gladstone: Chapters 9 and 10, "The Chancellor Who Made the Job" and "The Decline and Fall of the Aberdeen Coalition"
http://dilettantescholar.blogspot.com/2011/10/roy-jenkins-gladstone-chapters-9-and-10.html
Notes and comments on books I'm reading. Sunday, October 30, 2011. Roy Jenkins, Gladstone: Chapters 9 and 10, "The Chancellor Who Made the Job" and "The Decline and Fall of the Aberdeen Coalition". Crimean War - although he initial supported it, Gladstone could not sustain enthusiasm for war (which was a reversion to more typical form for him). The damage to the Aberdeen coalition was done, however, and the government did not survive the war. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Coming out of the Cave.
dilettantescholar.blogspot.com
Dilettante Scholar: Hans Blumenberg, Paradigms for a Metaphorology: Chapter 7, "Myth and Metaphorics"
http://dilettantescholar.blogspot.com/2011/11/hans-blumenberg-paradigms-for_29.html
Notes and comments on books I'm reading. Tuesday, November 29, 2011. Hans Blumenberg, Paradigms for a Metaphorology: Chapter 7, "Myth and Metaphorics". That will allow the specificity of each metaphor and its expressive forms to appear in sharper focus.". The myth of final judgment in the Gorgias. Functions as a postulate which the philosopher is compelled to assent to in order to risk his life on behalf of truth. It is turned to when the hopes of proving that justice will ultimately be done are exha...
dilettantescholar.blogspot.com
Dilettante Scholar: Richard Neustadt, Presidential Power: Chapter 8, "The Sixties Come Next"
http://dilettantescholar.blogspot.com/2011/10/richard-neustadt-presidential-power.html
Notes and comments on books I'm reading. Saturday, October 29, 2011. Richard Neustadt, Presidential Power: Chapter 8, "The Sixties Come Next". Neustadt concludes by (implausibly) contending that the American system is not unique after all - that other nations face a similar predicament of a single leader who must deal with disparate constituencies (even in parliamentary systems). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Blogs about reading books, mostly. Nigerian Romance Literature Revisited. Phil in the Blank.
dilettantescholar.blogspot.com
Dilettante Scholar: Roy Jenkins, Gladstone: Chapters 17 and 18, "'My Mission Is to Pacify Ireland'" and "A Commanding Prime Minister"
http://dilettantescholar.blogspot.com/2013/08/roy-jenkins-gladstone-chapters-17-and.html
Notes and comments on books I'm reading. Sunday, August 4, 2013. Roy Jenkins, Gladstone: Chapters 17 and 18, "'My Mission Is to Pacify Ireland'" and "A Commanding Prime Minister". Shortly after the Stockport speech, Lord Russell retired, thus elevating Gladstone to leader of the opposition. Gladstone conducted a vigorous campaign for his Lancashire seat, marked by some of his most noted campaign oratory. Jenkins reprises, with humor, one of his effective riffs:. In the rest of the chapter, Jenkins survey...
dilettantescholar.blogspot.com
Dilettante Scholar: Roy Jenkins, Gladstone: Chapters 7 and 8, "Ladies of the Night" and "The Tremendous Projectile"
http://dilettantescholar.blogspot.com/2011/09/roy-jenkins-gladstone-chapters-7-and-8.html
Notes and comments on books I'm reading. Sunday, September 25, 2011. Roy Jenkins, Gladstone: Chapters 7 and 8, "Ladies of the Night" and "The Tremendous Projectile". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Blogs about reading books, mostly. Nigerian Romance Literature Revisited. Head-Banging Through the Weeds. Interviews on Red Square in December 1991 by Svetlana Alexievich. Archive Fervor: Some Thoughts on Blumenberg’s Nachlass. Miklós Szentkuthy’s Marginalia on Casanova. Coming out of the Cave. Origin of t...
dilettantescholar.blogspot.com
Dilettante Scholar: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "Discourse on the Sciences and Arts" in The First and Second Dicourses, Masters, ed.
http://dilettantescholar.blogspot.com/2013/08/jean-jacques-rousseau-discourse-on.html
Notes and comments on books I'm reading. Tuesday, August 20, 2013. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "Discourse on the Sciences and Arts" in The First and Second Dicourses, Masters, ed. Tensions and paradoxes everywhere. There are two abrupt turns in the tone of the essay. The first comes when, in the midst of an opening encomium to the advancement of learning, Rousseau.drops the hammer on the arts and sciences:. The second comes when Rousseau jumps directly from bemoaning the miseries brought by the development of...
dilettantescholar.blogspot.com
Dilettante Scholar: Zadie Smith, White Teeth
http://dilettantescholar.blogspot.com/2012/12/zadie-smith-white-teeth.html
Notes and comments on books I'm reading. Monday, December 24, 2012. Zadie Smith, White Teeth. Impressed me above all for its marriage of the realistic and fantastic. From early on, we get a heavy dose of the fantastic: Darcus Bowden's perfect recumbency, Samad and Alsana Iqbal's epic wrestling bouts, Horst Ibelgaufts' epistolary clairvoyance, the metronomic consistency of Archie Jones' cycling. I am also inclined to look at the just so story of Archie and Samad's wartime service together in this light.
dilettantescholar.blogspot.com
Dilettante Scholar: Roy Jenkins, Gladstone: Chapters 15 and 16, "The People's William" and "Disraeli's Foil"
http://dilettantescholar.blogspot.com/2013/01/roy-jenkins-gladstone-chapters-15-and.html
Notes and comments on books I'm reading. Tuesday, January 1, 2013. Roy Jenkins, Gladstone: Chapters 15 and 16, "The People's William" and "Disraeli's Foil". In the early 1860s, all the remaining Peelite luminaries other than Gladstone perished, leaving him with no political home but Liberalism. Prince Albert also passed away in 1861, and with the removal of his influence Gladstone's relationship with Queen Victoria began to cool. Gladstone was evicted from his Oxford seat in the 1865 polls. He was do...