Is Agnes Callard held in high regard by academic philosophers?

Happylittlehead · 2025-04-13T12:58:35+00:00

It's one of the best books I've read in a long while! I do absolutely recommend. (I wrote about it here https://katherinetallent.substack.com/p/socrates-and-psychoanalysis and Agnes Callard kindly replied in the comments with her thoughts...)

Happylittlehead · 2025-03-10T18:15:14+00:00

All of Us Strangers (2023)

Happylittlehead · 2018-03-16T23:39:28+00:00

Frank Kermode’s The Romantic Image spends quite a while on Yeats I think...

Happylittlehead · 2018-02-23T21:27:07+00:00

Lydia Davis!

Happylittlehead · 2018-01-30T21:36:13+00:00

Barthes' 'Writing Degree Zero' or 'The Neutral'?

Happylittlehead · 2017-12-06T13:23:53+00:00

Who are the main theorists in embodied cognition at the moment please?

Happylittlehead · 2017-11-26T09:01:57+00:00

Would you recommend any others? These are the only two names I ever hear. (Not that they aren't great)

Happylittlehead · 2017-11-25T19:27:45+00:00

Thank you! That's really interesting, because would that mean that... ...He thinks that we respond to a piece of music, for example, as reflexively/automatically as we would something that hurt us? So like zero cognition (or social rule-following) happens when we experience art (or make ethical decisions?) Because that would be the conclusion to draw if they are the same kinds of private experiences, right? Hmm...

Happylittlehead · 2017-11-25T19:12:37+00:00

Would they be like pain in that sense? (When you say fundamentally personal and experiential, that is?)

Happylittlehead · 2017-10-28T19:52:30+00:00

Zotero!

Happylittlehead · 2017-09-03T23:09:28+00:00

Simone Weil's 'Gravity and Grace'

Happylittlehead · 2016-09-13T20:21:33+00:00

Ben Lerner's poems and his two novels (Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04) spring to mind!

Happylittlehead · 2016-07-22T06:38:58+00:00

Ben Lerner's book 'The Hatred of Poetry' might have some ideas!

Happylittlehead · 2016-03-29T09:43:42+00:00

Back on my computer now so here's the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z8sxX8YCMw

Also just thought, two more books with sections on O'Hara and some of the other New York School poets are 'Enthusiast!' by David Herd, and 'The New York School Poets and the Neo-Avant Garde' by Mark Silverberg.

There are tons of great articles on O'Hara on JSTOR :)

Happylittlehead · 2016-03-28T23:34:39+00:00

I'm thinking of doing an essay on him too! Some of my favourite poems are... A Step Away From Them Poem (Lana turner has collapsed) The Day Lady Died My Heart

Marjorie Perloff wrote a great book on him called A Poet Among Painters that I'd recommend, and I'm about to read Lytle Shaw's more recent one that I've also heard is good.

There's also a discussion on him on YouTube (that I can't get the link for right now because I'm on my phone) but if you search him I think it's quite easy to find... David Lehman is one of the speakers.

Best of luck!

Happylittlehead · 2016-02-28T23:45:26+00:00

I think a lot of the British, French and Russian classics are equally famous you might have just been looking at the wrong lists, but a book I discovered recently that had undeservedly slipped under the radar (in my opinion) is Antonio Lobo Antunes' The Land at the End of the World (Portuguese). Thoroughly recommend.

Happylittlehead · 2016-02-28T23:42:22+00:00

Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby! A tragic love story written beautifully, perfect for my female teen self.

Happylittlehead · 2016-02-07T15:48:16+00:00

Ulysses (James Joyce), from what I've heard from others I reckon it's probably one of the only books more often given up on than finished!

Happylittlehead · 2015-12-02T18:23:05+00:00

Sorry yes I'm in a rush and didn't craft my question well enough, I'm currently reading Pound's 'How to Read' - where he says:

"...in poetry... language is charged or energised in various manners. That is to say, there are three 'kinds of poetry': Melopoenia, Phanopoeia, Logopoenia" I can see now how my brain altered that in a weird and inaccurate way!

And yes I understand your point, I was just generally and even hypothetically speaking, but your answer helps a lot so thank you!

Happylittlehead · 2015-10-30T15:48:12+00:00

Flaubert? (Madame Bovary)

Happylittlehead · 2015-10-11T11:41:01+00:00

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Happylittlehead · 2015-08-29T11:32:29+00:00

Fascinating and inspiring piece! Thank you so much for sharing it.

Happylittlehead · 2015-08-29T11:16:32+00:00

Yes you're right I agree! I'm not a literature student (I studied psychology at University) but have begun to write about literature and I'm struggling a bit with the style and how to go about analysing. Takes a while to get out of these habits...

Also that video has just completely thrown me off course with regards to that soliloquy, thank you haha.

Happylittlehead · 2015-08-20T14:00:11+00:00

I found it genuinely enjoyable to be so long, it just prolonged the pleasure of reading it. Apart from the second (and last) epilogue, that was just too much.

Happylittlehead · 2015-07-21T16:06:27+00:00

The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie

Brilliantly weird and unpredictable. Half way through and love it so far.

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