January 2015 – Huenemanniac

January 29, 2015

On opera

I have long believed that I should love opera. I’m a great fan of “classical” music (a fairly meaningless term, as it encompasses way too much), and view its existence as one of the primary pieces of evidence for believing life is not meaningless. One of the greatest experiences of my life was several years… Continue reading

Music, This & that in the life of CH

January 24, 2015

From cynicism to spheres: a review of Peter Sloterdijk’s philosophy

(For several months I have lost myself in the thoughts of Peter Sloterdijk, a contemporary German philosopher. I need to continue to read and absorb his works, but the following is a “status report” on what I have found so far.) UPDATE (09 May 2017): I now have had the chance to study volume 3: Foams, and re-read… Continue reading

Books, Items of the academy / learning, Meanings of life / death / social & moral stuff

January 19, 2015

What to do with my dead body

As I’m closer to death than birth, I think from time to time about what to do with my dead body. Of course, in the main I don’t really care. I’ll be done with it, and it will be nothing other than Other People’s Problem, in the deepest existential sense of those words. But sometimes… Continue reading

3QD essays, Meanings of life / death / social & moral stuff

January 8, 2015

Sloterdijk, Hume, and a healthy skepticism

As I work through the recent works of Peter Sloterdijk (Spheres I: Bubbles, Spheres II: Globes), I am chiefly amazed and enthused by his ability to find deep symbolic and mythic connections throughout the history of philosophical thought, and to use that understanding to bring our culture into a startlingly fresh relief. His insights make… Continue reading

Books, Kant and/or Hume