As part of a conference marking the quincentennial of Utopia's first edition (Leuven, 1516), Dusenbury will give a lecture titled "Utopia's Borders" on 2 December 2016, 10 a.m., at the Irish College of K.U. Leuven.
Legal history Tilburg
Dusenbury will give a seminar titled “Giorgio Agamben and the Judgement of Pontius Pilate” on 27 October 2016, 12 noon, at the Department of Public Law, Jurisprudence and Legal History, Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Fra Angelico, “Cristo deriso”, c. 1441, Museo di San Marco, Firenze
Ancient philosophy Leuven
Dusenbury will discuss the hypothesis of Marc Van De Mieroop's book Philosophy before the Greeks: The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia (Princeton 2016), on 12 October 2016, 6.00 pm, in the Raadzaal of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Leuven.
“The pursuit of truth” – On Marc Van De Mieroop’s Philosophy before the Greeks (TLS 2016)
David Lloyd Dusenbury, "Beware of Greeks," TLS. The Times Literary Supplement (2 December 2016), 26. A review of Marc Van De Mieroop, Philosophy before the Greeks: The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia (Princeton 2016). An excerpt from the author’s typescript is copied below: Marc Van De Mieroop warns on the first page of his… Continue reading “The pursuit of truth” – On Marc Van De Mieroop’s Philosophy before the Greeks (TLS 2016)
“The disappearance of Time-images” – On Simona Cohen’s new study (Aevum 2015)
David Lloyd Dusenbury, [Untitled], Aevum. Rassegna di Scienze storiche linguistiche e filologiche 89.2 (2015), 186–188. A review of Simona Cohen, Transformations of Time and Temporality in Medieval and Renaissance Art (Leiden 2014) Transformations of Time and Temporality in Medieval Renaissance Art is a relatively unified study of the representation – and especially, of the personification… Continue reading “The disappearance of Time-images” – On Simona Cohen’s new study (Aevum 2015)
“The Commentator on Aristotle’s De Anima III” – On Carlos Steel’s ‘Simplicius’ (The Classical Review 2014)
“Pseudo-Simplicius”, The Classical Review 64.2 (2014), 436–437. A review of ‘Simplicius’, On Aristotle On the Soul 3.6–13, trans. C. Steel with A. Ritups (London 2012). An excerpt from the author’s typescript is copied below: In Inferno IV, when Dante catches sight of him in a mild foyer to the spiralling pit of hell, Averroes is… Continue reading “The Commentator on Aristotle’s De Anima III” – On Carlos Steel’s ‘Simplicius’ (The Classical Review 2014)
“Nothing could be more obscure” – Relative time in early modern philosophy (TLS 2014)
[Untitled], The Times Literary Supplement (15 August 2014), 27. A review of Michael Edwards, Time and the Science of the Soul in Early Modern Philosophy (Leiden 2013). An excerpt from the author’s typescript is copied below: “You suppose that the nature of time is perfectly clear, when nothing could be more obscure”, is Pierre Gassendi’s reproach… Continue reading “Nothing could be more obscure” – Relative time in early modern philosophy (TLS 2014)
“New territory beckons” – Daniel Napier on Augustine’s anthropology (TLS 2014)
[Untitled], The Times Literary Supplement (25 July 2014), 27. A review of D. A. Napier, En route to the Confessions: The Roots and Development of Augustine's Philosophical Anthropology (Leuven 2013). An excerpt from the author’s typescript is copied below: It should be commoner knowledge than it is that René Descartes’s epoch-making “I think, therefore I… Continue reading “New territory beckons” – Daniel Napier on Augustine’s anthropology (TLS 2014)
“That feeling is inexhaustible” – On Miklos Szentkuthy’s 1934 notebooks (TLS 2014)
“The Most Mysterious Thing in Life”, The Times Literary Supplement (7 February 2014), 22. A review of Miklós Szentkuthy, Towards the One and Only Metaphor, trans. T. Wilkinson (New York 2013). An excerpt from the author’s typescript is copied below: In the first pages of a notebook he kept in the summer of 1934, Miklós… Continue reading “That feeling is inexhaustible” – On Miklos Szentkuthy’s 1934 notebooks (TLS 2014)
“Very artful, almost loving” – On Josef Winkler’s When the Time Comes (TLS 2014)
“Death Becomes Them”, The Times Literary Supplement (10 January 2014), 21. A review of Josef Winkler, When the Time Comes, trans. A. West (New York 2013). An excerpt from the author’s typescript is copied below: Before he died, W.G. Sebald often praised Josef Winkler’s “monomaniacal oeuvre”; and Winkler has self-diagnosed his idée fixe: we all… Continue reading “Very artful, almost loving” – On Josef Winkler’s When the Time Comes (TLS 2014)
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