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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

When you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life


“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery 

 
“Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.”
~John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

You were wrong then, and you're wrong now. You were tendentious then, and you're tendentious now.


Nicole Im interviews philosophical novelist Joanna Kavenna.

Viorica Patea on 'Ana Blandiana and Hölderlin's Eternal Question'.


Erin Blakemore on 'Jane Austen and the Value of Flaws'


Duncan Richter on 'War and Peace and Wittgenstein'. From 2015, Henry W. Pickford's book Thinking with Tolstoy and Wittgenstein: Expression, Emotion, and Art.

Danièle Moyal-Sharrock on 'Wittgenstein and Leavis: Literature and the Enactment of the Ethical'.


'Showing and Saying: An Aesthetic Difference' by Vicente Sanfélix Vidarte.


E. F. Mooney on 'Melville’s Moby Dick: Between Philosophy and Literature'.


From 2013, a conversation between E. F. Mooney and Dean Dettloff on 'Philosophical Style, Lyricism, Intimacy'.




The latest issue of Philosophy of Literature has a symposium on "Literature and Moral Vision" (paywall).






GabinetYou know that saying, “when you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life?”

Well, at 92 years old and still teaching four days a week, Professor Leon Gabinet is the true embodiment of that.

“I think at 92, I must be the oldest living professor,” Gabinet said, laughing.

News 5 checked with the American Association of University Professors, and while we're told the data around professor's ages isn't maintained, a spokesperson couldn't immediately think of professor above that age still teaching.

Gabinet teaches federal income tax law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law — a place he has been a fixture since 1968. ...

“You would think going into a federal income tax class that it was going to be really dry and boring,” said law student Jess Ice. “But I laugh every class. I just have a great time. He has forgotten more about tax than I’ll ever learn in my life.”