Distinguishing the perilous adventure of selfhood

Terry Eagleton writing in the latest edition of The London Review of Books: Kierkegaard is careful to distinguish the perilous adventure of selfhood from whimsical self-fashioning, in which the self, intoxicated by endless possibility, reinvents itself experimentally from moment to moment, shucking off responsibility for the past and surrendering to the aesthetic allure of the… Continue reading Distinguishing the perilous adventure of selfhood

The morning after

Congratulations to ‘Boris’ Johnson on so quickly overtaking Theresa May as the UK’s worst Prime Minister since David Cameron.

Dick heads

Compare and contrast: Be honest, now: you always knew my head would end up on a spike some day. (On the plus side, this does finally confirm my face to be a work of art.) The above piece is part of artist Jo Pearl’s installation of ceramic heads expressing the six emotions Charles Darwin defined… Continue reading Dick heads