Reason & Society

I had forgotten that I had something to say about D. T. Suzuki in a previous post:  Gods, UFOs, Zen, epistemology, autonomy Last year I re...

‘Are the underground men in the works of Wright and Ellison given the same psychological dimensions as those Dostoevsky achieves for his...

My running commentary on Dostoevsky reflects what I have assimilated at the moment of writing and my perspective changes with what I learn. ...

The sphere of psychology, in which such projects take up residence, though with little success, is not exempt from the crisis of lit...

My understanding of Notes from Underground and its context has developed since I finished reading it. There are a number of factors to con...

I shall have a lot more to say, plus add additional references. First, let me link to pages on my web site that engage Dostoevsky: Georg L...

I have finished Part 2 of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground (1864), and so I have read the entire novel. I completely disag...

This installment is part 3 of Trotsky vs Dostoevsky, a unit of the larger project of analyzing the ideological structure of Dostoevsky...

Actually, this is Trotsky vs Dostoevsky, part 2, but it's all part of the larger trajectory. So this time, here are the other reference...

In an old post on Trotsky on religion , a quote from Trotsky mentions Dostoevsky. Here I will extract a short quote from the longer quote: ...

I have finished Part I of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky and have begun Part II, for the second...

Evolutionary psychologists should be presumed guilty until proven innocent. I was amazed to find Christopher Badcock, writing for Psychol...

In line with an ongoing project, I finally put together a working though obviously non-comprehensive bibliography on unusual treatments of t...

I probably first read Erich Fromm's distinctive analysis of the Biblical myth of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in his most importan...

The Biblical myth begins where the Babylonian myth has ended. The supremacy of a male god is established and hardly any trace of a previous ...

The following was written August 11, 2012: Fromm was one of my teenage heroes, beginning with Escape From Freedom , which I read and mark...

When simplicity hits the mark, it's genius. This Jewish joke, distilling an aspect of social psychology to its essence, could not be mor...

The Wrong Conclusion By Eric MacDonald, Choice in Dying (blog), 30 July 2011 John Gray and Steven Pinker are full of crap. And in this ca...

Quailing Before the Real: Terry Eagleton on Ethics [review of Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics ] By Roland Boer, The Hobgoblin , ...

This is old stuff, but here's the info. I could quibble over some details, but there are important criticisms here of the political and ...