Re-enchantment in Philosophy
Ours is an age when the humanities have been gutted and decimated by radical ideological mendacity. Today several generations of students, and readers alike, have never heard…
The Unfinished Sentence
In your insular grave You sleep, Surrounded by motion, life, illusions, vanity, hypocrisy. This is the end – The beginning, others say. Nothingness, The eternal abyss. From…
The Enduring Relevance of Human Dignity
With the notable exception of continental philosophers, twentieth century thought was dominated by analytic thinkers and positivism. The variegated forms that these took and their attenuated values…
Prelude to a Fantasy
Startled, my body quivering, My entrails shook. My palms drenched in sweat, I touched my face. No doubt, it was I. I am certain it was I…
Imaginary Conversation with Borges about Imaginary Writers and Books*
To the other one, to Borges, is to whom things happen. I walk through the streets of Buenos Aires and I delay myself, perhaps almost mechanically, to…
In Your Grave
You are now, This atomic instance of measurable pain, In your grave. Cozy and warm. While the rest of the believers, Above the fertile, green grass Delight…
2001: A Space Odyssey: Contemplative Tone Poem
Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer, do! I’m half crazy, All for the love of you! It won’t be a stylish marriage, I can’t afford a carriage,…
Utnapishtim Takes Gilgamesh’s Hand
Humbaba never tires, Never sleeps. Protector of the Cedar Forest, He inflicts eternal unconsciousness, On naifs and wise alike. Irony abounds. "Enkidu, what men do is nothing,…
Existential Symmetry, Enlightened Personalism
Each self is a unique existence, which is perfectly impervious…to other selves – impervious in a fashion of which the impenetrability of matter is a faint analogue…
Movies and the Soul
The Golden Age of American cinema, which is another way of saying the foundational cornerstone of cinematic techniques, lighting and sound, spirited motifs and joie de vivre,…
Revolt in José Ortega y Gasset’s “The Revolt of the Masses”
There are no longer protagonists; there is only the chorus. ~ José Ortega y Gasset Revolt. In a reductionist and censorial age, as is the current…
Living in the Post-Rational Age, Part II
For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam Our post-Christian, post-rational era is what science fiction…
Living in the Post-Rational Age
During these last three centuries, politics has corrupted Man more than during the whole of pre-History. - Louis-Ferdinand Céline The news is ominous. We are living a…
Spirit and Essence in The Prelude of William Wordsworth
My heart leaps up when I behold A Rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So it is now I am a Man;…