D. L. Dusenbury, “Dark and beautiful,” TLS. The Times Literary Supplement (20 April 2018). A review of Giorgio Agamben, The Mystery of Evil: Benedict XVI and the End of Days, trans. A. Kotsko (Stanford, 2017). An excerpt from the author’s typescript is copied below: Agamben believes that the crisis of the European church is nobly symbolized by Benedict XVI’s… Continue reading “Dark and Beautiful” – On Giorgio Agamben’s The Mystery of Evil (TLS 2018)
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.
“Too bad. We’re in paradise.”
"Too bad. We're in paradise. Illusion is no longer possible." - Jean Baudrillard, Fatal Strategies (New York, 1990), 71
History of ideas Leuven
As part of a roundtable in honour of Prof. Carlo Ginzburg, Dusenbury will give a short lecture on Sherlock Holmes, on the rise of the term 'data' in late-Victorian England, & on IBM's 'cognitive computing platform', Watson. The roundtable will begin at 3 p.m. on 16 February 2018, in the Raadzaal of the Institute of Philosophy,… Continue reading History of ideas Leuven
Beautiful or good
But to the wise Often, often it is denied To be beautiful or good. - W. H. Auden, "Oxford", December 1937
Teubner reviews The Space of Time (2014)
Jonathan Teubner revisits Dusenbury's first book, The Space of Time (2014), in the most recent issue of Reviews in Religion & Theology (vol. 24, no. 4, Oct. 2017, p. 633–642). Teubner summarizes: "For van Dusen, ‘the soul that is dilated in Augustine's time-investigation is essentially and incommutably the life of a body (vita corporis) –… Continue reading Teubner reviews The Space of Time (2014)
Carlos Steel discusses Platonic Legislations (2017)
Carlos Steel will present his review of Dusenbury's new book, Platonic Legislations (2017), at a meeting of The Philosophical Review Club. The Club will convene in the Salons of the Institute of Philosophy, K.U. Leuven, at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, 13 December 2017.
Ancient political philosophy Leuven
In the context of a seminar convened by the Institute of Classical Studies, Dusenbury will offer some remarks on Nemesius of Emesa's 'cosmopolitical' theory. The seminar will be held on 1 December 2017, at 2 p.m., in the Museumzaal (02.08) of the Mgr. Sencie-Instituut, K.U. Leuven.
“Law is not the most perfect right.” – Platonic Legislations (Springer 2017)
D. L. Dusenbury, Platonic Legislations: An Essay on Legal Critique in Ancient Greece (Springer, 2017) This book discusses how Plato, one the fiercest legal critics in ancient Greece, became its most influential legislator. Making use of a vast scholarly literature, and offering original readings of a number of dialogues, it argues that the need for… Continue reading “Law is not the most perfect right.” – Platonic Legislations (Springer 2017)
History of ideas Budapest
As part of a conference titled Philosophy of Borders, Dusenbury will give a lecture on the fictional border-regimes in Thomas More's Utopia and Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, on 4 February 2017, at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Ancient philosophy Leuven
Dusenbury will give a seminar on Nemesius of Emesa's theory of elements (Elementenlehre) on 8 December 2016, 12 noon, in LETT 3.30 of the Erasmushuis, K.U. Leuven.
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