“In philosophy there is no escaping history. Ideally, I sometimes think, I would just like to tell my students the truth about a question and send them home. But such a totally unhistorical approach tends to produce philosophical superficiality. We have to know how it came about historically that we have the questions we do and what sorts of answers our ancestors gave to these questions.”
Try to do both /
“You look around and you see a world that is impenetrable, that cannot be made sense of. You either raise your fist or you say ‘Hallelujah.’ I try to do both.”
The founder is a liminal, Dionysian figure, expressing the synergy between thought and its embodiment in projects /
Democracy: The God that failed /
“What happens in other forms of government–namely, that an organized minority imposes its will on the disorganized majority–happens also and to perfection, whatever the appearances to the contrary, under the representative system. When we say that the voters “choose” their representative, we are using a language that is very inexact. The truth is that the representative has himself elected by the voters, and, if that phrase should seem too inflexible and too harsh to fit some cases, we might qualify it by saying that his friends have him elected. In elections, as in all other manifestations of social life, those who have the will and, especially, the moral, intellectual and material means to force their will upon others take the lead over the others and command them.”
What I saw through the lens in January, 2011 /
A dozen years have passed since I took and assembled this collection of photographs. It’s difficult to comprehend how quickly time and life leak away.