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silencing the past
first of all im really happy with this book becausr i absolutely love history and im planning on majoring in it and oh my gosh the insight in this book is awesome. im pretty sure half the class will think … Continue reading → Continue reading →
silencing the past
first of all im really happy with this book becausr i absolutely love history and im planning on majoring in it and oh my gosh the insight in this book is awesome. im pretty sure half the class will think … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Silencing the Past
This week’s reading got me very excited! For one I am a self-confessed history nerd, and so knowing that we were going to A) read something that is somewhat current and B) written by someone who is not from Europe! … Continue reading → Continue reading →
“How do I define History? Its’ just one fucking thing after another”
Hey friends, I feel like the Blog hub is just of my random thoughts, so here is another one. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make it to the lecture tomorrow so I know that I am going to have … Continue reading → Continue reading →
The Remaking of Antigone- Jean Anouilh
Hey all, So I know that no one else read this play, but I wanted to write a blog post anyways. So I am almost done this weeks book Silencing the Past and I felt that seeing how I was this week, … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Seamus has lost his filter
People, Since I have already gotten this rap of being slightly too honest and such, I am going to do something that I said I wasn’t going to…RANT! I am at my wits end right now. I am just done … Continue reading → Continue reading →
overidentification with Jean
my reading of Rousseau has been subject to tremendous variation. the original criticism and, quite honestly, my unabashed derision that I felt for him has faded into near reverence. to be clear there are a number of things that I take … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A commentary still relevant today?
Firstly, to all my avid readers, let me apologize for my brief delay in posting this week’s upload. My cousin was over yesterday; she is moving indefinitely to Nicaragua (I am so jealous) and therefore some farewell celebrations were in … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Oh is it Tuesday already?
Rousseau is a fantastic writer and I am super happy that after weeks of looking at Leviathan…and to be honest, not even reading more than 10 pages of it, that we got to read this book. Rousseau is such a smooth writer and before the lecture, I agreed with everything he was saying and admired […] Continue reading →
A Note on Two Texts: Leviathan and Discourse on Inequality
I still want to talk about Leviathan a little bit because from my last blog post, I think I missed the mark on Hobbes! I still don’t understand him but I’m still trying. So from what I heard, last seminar (the one that I missed), the group talked about … 1) Why Hobbes thought monarchy […] Continue reading →
