I am delighted to have a contribution titled "World City" in the newest volume of Studia Patristica - adjacent an essay by the great Ilaria Ramelli, on pagan and Christian concepts of the world-generating Mind.
Author: David Lloyd Dusenbury
David Lloyd Dusenbury is a philosopher, historian of ideas, Times Literary Supplement contributor and senior fellow at Budapest's Danube Institute. The author of I Judge No One and The Innocence of Pontius Pilate (published by Hurst and Oxford University Press), he is also Chair for Jewish-Christian Relations at the University of Antwerp.
Announced: Nemesius of Emesa on Human Nature (Oxford, 2021)
The cover is still in design - but I'm pleased to see that my Oxford book on Nemesius of Emesa (now Homs, Syria), and his "cosmopolitan anthropology", has a web page. Expected in August 2021.
Said’s definition of “Romance philology”
Surprised by Edward Said's definition of "Romance philology": "[T]he study of those literatures deriving from Latin but ideologically unintelligible without the Christian doctrine of Incarnation (and hence of the Roman Church) as well as its secular underpinning in the Holy Roman Empire."(Said's introduction to the reissue of Erich Auerbach's Mimesis (Princeton, 2003), p. xi.)
“As serious as Geistesgeschichte”
"I am neo-frivolous ... and in secret I take my frivolity as seriously as Geistesgeschichte." Antal Szerb, "An Elegy for Books and Youth", 1938
In case we’ve forgotten
In case we've forgotten, Antal Szerb reminds us that William Blake was "considered insane by his contemporaries, notably Leigh Hunt, who wrote that once when they were out walking Blake suddenly doffed his hat. Leigh Hunt asked whom he was greeting and Blake replied: 'It's nothing. It's just that St Paul the Apostle was flying… Continue reading In case we’ve forgotten
“As near as an ordinary, secular spirit can come to Pentecost”
"Why have I been remunerated, given money ... to read with others, to study Phaedrus or The Tempest? ... My doctoral seminar in Geneva ran, more or less unbroken, for a quarter of a century. Those Thursday mornings were as near as an ordinary, secular spirit can come to Pentecost. By what oversight or vulgarization… Continue reading “As near as an ordinary, secular spirit can come to Pentecost”
RIP L Ferlinghetti
"Let us arise and go now into the interior dark night of the soul’s still bowery and find ourselves anew" L Ferlinghetti
Oxford to co-publish “The Innocence of Pontius Pilate”
Very pleased to learn that The Innocence of Pontius Pilate will be published by Oxford University Press in the Americas. It's expected on 1 July 2021. There is no Oxford webpage yet, but the TLS is selling pre-ordered copies at a discount.
“Listen closely to the rush of thought …”
"Nothing identifies Marx more closely with enlightenment innocence than his affirmation that mankind only poses those questions to itself for which there will be an answer. It is the opposite which comes closer to the truth. It is 'jesting Pilate' ... Listen closely to the rush of thought and you will hear, at its inviolate… Continue reading “Listen closely to the rush of thought …”
A fine place to write, and not to write
I am delighted to be settling into a lake-house in the Poconos for a couple of months - to write, and not to write.
D. L. Dusenbury 