February 9, 2006
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The Vanishing (?) President
Karen E. Fields, translator’s introduction to Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, by Emile Durkheim:
“Durkheim breathed the air of turn-of-the-century Paris, a place that
fizzed with experiments in artistic representation, and a time when
philosophy, science, and art existed in nothing like today’s isolation
from one another.24
24 Judith Ryan provides an illuminating account of the links
joining physics, psychology, philosophy, painting, and literature in The Vanishing Subject: Early Psychology and Literary Modernism,
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1991.”And today’s Crimson provides an illuminating account of Judith Ryan and (implicitly) forms of the religious life at Harvard.
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