William Healey

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Beginagains Wake! Joyce and Beckett at the Limits of Late Style by Ryan Marrinan

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The only way to do this, however, was to make their last works mimetic of perplexity itself—to

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“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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“I deduce nothing: according to the rules of syllogism nihil sequitur geminis ex particularibus unquam, no law can be drawn from two single facts.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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“Kendler himself is the researcher who reported that when Walter Cassidy, the psychiatrist who first proposed diagnostic criteria for depression, was asked why he set the threshold at six out of ten symptoms, he responded, “It sounded about right”
― Gary Greenberg, The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry

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“I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon, and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed. Further, since I had been with my master I had become aware, and was to become even more aware in the days that followed, that logic could be especially useful when you entered it but then left it.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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“No one accused Frederick James Furnivall of averageness, and his career highlights the ups and downs of editorial scholarship. As eccentric as he was energetic, a Christian socialist turned agnostic, Furnivall gained a reputation for hot pink neckties, sculling on the Thames with shopgirls, and hours toiling over manuscripts in the British Museum.”
― James Turner, Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

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Summer of the Wake — 49 members — last activity Sep 13, 2013 10:05AM
A group dedicated to reading Finnegans Wake from June to mid-October. MeFites and others welcome. Pour some Irish whiskey and let's get cracking. ...more

Political Philosophy and Ethics — 6585 members — last activity 17 hours, 47 min ago
Study and discussion of the important questions of ethical and political philosophy from Confucius and Socrates to the present. Rules (see also the ...more

The Borromean Set : Interweaving Lacan, Badiou, and Mathematics — 3 members — last activity May 05, 2025 05:44AM
he Borromean Set is an interdisciplinary collective exploring the intersections of Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theories, Alain Badiou's philosophic ...more