“More” Tribulations of the Self: I Fashioneth, I Taketh Away
Stephen Greenblatt’s chapter “At the Table of the Great: More’s Self-fashioning and Self-cancellation,” in Renaissance Self-fashioning: From More to Shakespeare, posits that Thomas More’s self-formation...
Constellations of research
“What you see is their physical form, but you realize that this form is really just the web of relationships that have taken on a...
Old English Boethius, the Power of Différance and Translation
In order to appreciate this sordid-by-modern-standards translation of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, it was necessary for me to place it further into context within (1)...
Uncovering the Self: Stoic, Early Christian, and Foucauldian Self-Care through Self-Knowledge
In “Hermeneutics of the Self” Foucault writes of self-care as a form of self-governance, and therefore a self-governance that is coerced by those in power...
Presence, Absence and Retreat in Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations
Men seek retreats for themselves--in the country, by the sea, in the hills--and you yourself are particularly prone to this yearning. But all this is...