Jonathan Egid

2 months ago | the-tls.co.uk | Jonathan Egid |A. N. Wilson |Barnaby Rogerson |Peter Geoghegan

In the shadow of St Peter’s Basilica, across the piazza degli scalpellini, or “square of the stonecutters”, lies another, more ancient structure. Dedicated to the first Christian martyr, the monastery of Santo Stefano is one of the few structures in the Vatican to have survived the demolition of the old St Peter’s and the construction of the domed behemoth.

Nov 13, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Madoc Cairns |Suki Finn |Richard Whatmore |Jonathan Egid

A revolutionary who critiqued Marx; a Christian who refused baptism; a Jew who held Jewishness in contempt: Simone Weil was a creature of contradictions. For Adrienne Rich, Annie Dillard, Mary Gordon and the array of poets studied in Cynthia R. Wallace’s The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil, Weil’s contraries analogize our own. Reading Weil, we meet someone caught within our conflicts and limitations; and someone who, somehow, transcends them.

Nov 13, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Suki Finn |Madoc Cairns |Richard Whatmore |Jonathan Egid

Despite its title, Regan Penaluna’s How to Think Like A Woman is very much not a how-to guide. Instead it is a combination of memoir, philosophical exegesis and the biographies of several philosophers, structured somewhat chronologically around the author’s changing relationship with philosophy itself. As for gendered thought, Penaluna provides a few hints at what “thinking like a woman” might entail. On page 120 we read: “the epistemic state of many a thinking woman is one of self-doubt”.

Sep 24, 2024 | philosophisingin.com | Jonathan Egid

I – Sanskrit, Dravidian, Tibeto-BurmeseIV –Endnotes and Further Reading“[Shankardeva's] language is a kind of a palimpsest. It's a kind of a hybrid texture where there are Sanskritic nouns and verbs but there are also ways of speaking which I can recognize as distinctively Assamese.”Ankur Barua is University Senior Lecturer in Hindu Studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.

Aug 19, 2024 | philosophisingin.com | Jonathan Egid

III - The 'New Woman' and the The Non-Existent God IV –Korean Philosophical WordlistV –Endnotes and Further Reading“The collective 'I' comes before or prior to the individual 'I', and the individual 'I' make sense only in the context of community to which it belongs to as a web of relations”Halla Kim is Professor of Philosophy at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea and Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.