I’m told that I’ve been away for too long. What brought me back, today, and I hope again and again, is a dispensation sealed with…
During Steven Kruger’s plenary at SEMA, I got to thinking about the dynamic of supersessionarity in St. Erkenwald. I’m sure K. Biddick has handled this…
Where have I been? Apart from surviving the shock of the semester’s start, and suffering the siege of many writing projects, apparently all due at…
“If decision-making is relegated to a knowledge that it is content to follow or to develop, then it is no more a responsible decision, [comma sic]…
In her post below, Mary Kate writes: On the final page of the book, CD defines “getting medieval” as this: “using ideas of the past,…
I’ve a longer post planned, but for now, I offer this, a key moment (for me) in Getting Medieval, one I marked with “a passage…
(Okay, so I’ve been writing. And reading. And standing to the side, just over here, watching our blog get along fine. Good! Warning: what follows…
“There is no impersonal reason for regarding the interests of human beings as more important than those of animals. We can destroy animals more easily…
In much of his late work, Jacques Derrida characterized the question of the animal as “not one question among others” but the question that “represents…
When in medieval intellectual befunkitude, I try to open myself to the unknown in the hopes that I’ll be surprised. German works might be the…
