Going from almost nothing about Friedlaender on the internet to a few things. The most recent is courtesy of the editors at the Blog of the American Philosophical Association. They were kind enough to publish my piece giving a brief overview of why someone might be interested in Friedlaender’s work.
Imagine if you had produced somewhere in the range of 40 volumes of philosophy books, novels, short stories, and poetry, and yet nobody knew who you were. Up to now, that has been the fate of Salomo Friedlaender. My hope is that the first published English translation of his Kant for Children will begin to move Friedlaender into a spotlight he deserves. Helping me in the task has been a group of distinguished scholars: Paul Mendes-Flohr, Sarah Holtman, Robert Louden, Kate Moran, Krista Thomason, and Jens Timmermann.
The journal’s editors inform me that the latest issue is now available for download. The significance of the journal is reinforced as I read through Octavian Esanu’s Mimesis, Expression, Construction, a book that attempts to capture Fredric Jameson’s seminar on Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory.
In today’s “Money Stuff” at Bloomberg, Matt Levine describes a way that the wealthy have found to “transmute” interest income into capital gains. Why? Because the tax rate on interest income can be as high as 37%, while tax on capital gains is around 20%.
“We spent seven years figuring out how to do this,” said Wesley Gray, the ex-Marine and chief executive officer of Alpha Architect. “My job is just to deliver all the value I possibly can to my shareholders, within the law.” It’s that last prepositional phrase that ought to give pause. Whenever someone feels the need to add “within in the law,” it often suggests, let’s just loosely say – though we could say it literally –, the fashioning of a Gray area.
It’s possible to love Errol Morris, if only for this one line from a recent interview when asked whether he’d be interested in filming a certain Republican 2024 presidential candidate: “I need to make a film to learn this guy is shallow?”
While fun and learned, Morris can also be prickly, evidence for which can be found in a recent interview in the New York Times. It’s no wonder Morris’s grad advisor once threw an ashtray at him.
Thanks to Tom Furse and the other editors at the Blog of the Journal of the History of Ideas for publishing my essay about Hans Blumenberg’s view regarding prayer and the need for consent.