Hello Arts One!
Hey fellow seminar peeps! I’m sure you all know my name already, but I’ll introduce myself again – I’m Michaela! I’m super stoked to be part of such an amazing program and such an amazing seminar group as well! A few facts about me to make this post more interesting: I’m from Edmonton but I […] Continue reading →
The Faces of Eve
This week we are reading Kant’s interpretation of the first six chapters of Genesis. For more ways to approach the early chapters of Genesis, see this program from CBC’s Ideas back in May: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2013/05/27/the-faces-of-eve-2/
Continue reading →
Tamar and Recognition
This week, I am going to breathe life into the myth of Judah and Tamar, as told in Genesis. Kant, in our other reading for this week, attempts to examine what the early chapters of the Genesis story have to … Continue reading →
Continue reading →
Repetition and Sisyphus
“The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than … Continue reading →
Continue reading →
Repetition and Sisyphus
“The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than … Continue reading →Continue reading →
Foe and the Narrative View of Self
As someone with a long standing interest in Marya Schechtman’s narrative view of self, I was fascinated by reading J.M. Coetzee’s novel Foe (a retelling of Daniel DeFoe’s Robinson Crusoe) this term in Arts One. The book seems to me to be … Continue reading →
Continue reading →
Foe and the Narrative View of Self
As someone with a long standing interest in Marya Schechtman’s narrative view of self, I was fascinated by reading J.M. Coetzee’s novel Foe (a retelling of Daniel DeFoe’s Robinson Crusoe) this term in Arts One. The book seems to me to be … Continue reading →Continue reading →