Archive for the 'philosophy' Category

Paris Review of Books?

October 15, 2007

Listening to the radio last week, I discovered that there is a new literary review in France, La revue internationale des livres et des idées, ostensibly based on the New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement. I bought the first issue and found it well worth reading — long articles by a number of academics and critics on serious, difficult books.

Nous sommes nombreux à regretter l’absence en France de véritables lieux publics où la critique littéraire, savante et politique pourrait s’exercer et s’épanouir. Nous sommes nombreux à regretter l’espace toujours plus réduit et intermittent que lui accordent la plupart des grands médias. C’est pourquoi nous lançons aujourd’hui La Revue internationale des livres et des idées, qui voudrait introduire dans le monde francophone, en la renouvelant, la tradition que le Times Literary Supplement, la New York Review of Books, la London Review of Books et, plus récemment, Bookforum ont contribué à inventer, à maintenir et à développer dans le monde anglophone.

I’m glad to see one of my all-time favorite formats (NYRB’s) in a French forum. Unfortunately, most of the content is paper-only.

Online videos of philosophical lectures

June 24, 2006

A brood comb has put together a list of philosophy lectures found on google video. Primarily philosophy of the mind. Interviews, lectures, talks etc. by people like Searle, Dennett, Putnam et al.

I'm watching Thomas Metzinger's talk on "the self-model of subjectivity", from his book Being No One.