Ethical Diversions

[Dave Monroe]

Uh, fun?  Well, Michel de Certeau's The Practice of
Everyday Living is probably the most useful and
straightforwrd (though that's a relative term here, of
course) of the lot.  Orban's getting some pretty good
mileage out of it, at any rate.  Think, ex-Jesuit
poststructuralist anti-panoptic anti-Foucault ...  

Edith Wyschogrod's Saints and Postmodernism and John
Caputo's Against Ethics I sort of hacked my way
through way back when while trying to sort out both
the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas and what might
constitute (?) a deconstructive ethics (though their
Simon Critchley's essay "'Bois,'" found in both his
The Ethics of Deconstruction and the anthology
Re-Reading Levinas, has been of the most help) ...

--- mikebailey at speakeasy.net wrote:
 
> who are all those people?  Which ones are fun to
> read?
> 
> Wanted to take a minute to say that I enjoy your
> posts.  I particularly like the beautiful Periodic
> Chart you offered the link for the other day.  

We try.  I kinda thought maybe Keith in particular
would get a kick out of that chart (which came down to
me from friends who knew I'd find it a good home) ...
 
> Hey, I finally ordered my set of back issues!  So
> it's just a matter of time.

I've yet to have properly deployed those, here or in
daily life.  But they'e a treasure trove, no doubt. 
And I really did like Robt.'s essay, a few sides of
him we so rarely see here, reminded me of my own more
outre intertextual claims.  But Keith's such moment
was one of my favorites, and, i think, one of the most
inetresting here, noting the similarities between the
Lord Lepton ch. of M&D and The Chymical Wedding of
Christian Rosencrantz.  I've for a while been thinking
taht maybe M&D was born under the sign of Frances
Yates' The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, so ...

> ...have intercourse with them if they fail to see
> the humor...

I try to be friendly, but not THAT friendly ...

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