my virtual notebook

Research thoughts and a link to Wilhelm Dilthey

Wilhelm Dilthey infos can be found at that site... (I'm getting back into the research/writing of my 2007 article--it was going to be on embodiment in Bettine von Arnim's works, but I'm drifting away from issues of embodiment--now I'm more focused on/ interested in issues pertaining to the textual self -- what is its relationship to the non-textual self? - of course this is Bettina von Arnim's textual self so issues of gender will also be pertinent.

And in the on-going game of "six degrees of seperation from Bettina von Arnim" it turns out Dilthey was heavily influenced by none other than Friedrich Schleiermacher--who was of course very good buddies with Bettina...

Tuesday, 03/20/07 My books for the new paper: Project 365: #141

Tuesday, 03/20/07: Project 365: #141 
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I'm still slogging away at this paper: I've presented it twice and am now transforming it (slowly slowly) into a publishable article. The focus may be moving away a bit from "female embodiment" and towards issues of agency and autonomy, but the feminist stuff will still play a role.

Hemlock/Schierling

I'm working hard on my new paper describing the way in which Bettine von Arnim depicts a poeticised version of her own body in her epistolary memoirs and the repercusssions of that depicition. (Notoriety, a tendency to not be taken seriously etc...) Here are some links's from Wikipedia about Hemlock/Schierling.  Von Arnim, describes this version of herself wandering through a wood at night and taking a hemlock leaf and pressing it to her lips...I'm not sure how dangerous it would really be to do this, or whether it is merely another example of the Bettine figure "flirting with disaster" - which probably would have been a snappier title for my paper....oh well maybe thats what I'll call the article!

Schierlingsbecher

Schierling

Hemlock/Conium

Might be useful

useful  (It links to a site on Friedrich Joseph Schelling).

Schematism link

Schematism

this and that

We watched "The Constant Gardner" recently. I thought it was pretty good, Ralph F. looked especially pretty...(and google news tells me Rachel Weisz got the supporting actress oscar for her role as the hard to rein in wife)

An interesting new movie for people interested in theory is  The Ister.   

Zizek?!?!?!

Rather than doing something useful or productive (work on the article, class prep, take down christmas decorations etc..) I have been stuck at my computer importing  my CD's to itunes (in alphabetical order...I'm at "S" right now and have had fun re-listening to various "The Smiths" CD's, the one Michelle Shocked CD we own (Arkansas Traveller) and now a fun if rather adolescent German punk?/pop group called "Die Schröders" and of course surfing the web. 

On wood s lot I found a reference to what must be a new movie about Slavoj Zizek, plus a "blogosphere controversy" which took me back to my days as a graduate student...ah yes it is nice to be able to read about these issues/people but not feel all that close to it.  I should probably go read some Zizek, since I am about to embark on an extended stint of reading about Schelling/Nature philosophy/German Idealism/Romanticism etc etc in preparation for the paper/article I am wriitng about the concept of nature as it relates to Naturphilosophie in Bettina von Arnim's first three epistolary novels.

(random) thinker of the day - Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal links: here , here und hier auf Deutsch

a couple of research-related links

innere Wahrnehmung

innerer Sinn

Lots and lots of Hegel-links...

Get your Hegel-links here!

including a link to an illustrated biography, which includes the great line: "He took up the habit of snuff"....