The Oedipus Casebook
The Oedipus Casebook. Mark R. Anspach, eds. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2020. Offering a new translation of Oedipus Rex, and a collection of…
Oblivion and History
"A slow awakening after so many metempsychoses: things will never be the same as they once were" -Verlain Human thought has been torn apart for millennia,…
Oedipus Rex in René Girard’s Violence and the Sacred
Sigmund Freud’s concept of the Oedipus complex has entered popular consciousness. It names the tendency of boys to become romantically infatuated with their mothers, and girls with…
On Technological Utopianism
I propose an inquiry into what Hans Jonas once called the “built-in, automatic utopianism” of our thought and actions. Jonas suggests that this “utopian drift” inheres in…