Category: Obscure Philosophers
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The Susanne K. Langer Circle
Tony Flood writes, I'm proud of this, Bill. And you're the only one I know who would appreciate it. https://langercircle.sites.uu.nl/ The work they did to "internalize" all the links on my clunky old site is impressive. Langer scholars (I'm told) love my prefatory notes, so they asked if they could host my Langer…
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Paul Roubiczek
A while back I supplied a reader's demand for a list of Obscure, Neglected, and Underrated Philosophers. But I forgot to mention Paul Roubiczek. I have read a couple of his works, and this morning I started in on Thinking Towards Religion which Mr. Amazon was kind enough to deposit upon my doorstep yesterday afternoon. …
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Hard Childhood, Strong Man
Emmanuel Lasker, Die Philosophie des Unvollendbar, 1919, p. x: Aber eine harte Kindheit macht einen starken Mann. But a hard childhood makes a strong man. In the '80s I read a chunk of Lasker's Philosophy of the Incompletable and concluded that the grandmaster of chess was not one of philosophy. But I didn't read much…