Friday, July 19, 2019
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Taylor Made
The Montreal Catholic philosopher Charles Taylor has been reviewed
online recently in The New Yorker and The Nation .
Here is some background from this journal and from a 1989 book.
Update of 5:01 AM August 14— See also Valéry and the Self in this journal.
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Friday, May 15, 2020
Review
Charles Taylor,
“Epiphanies of Modernism,”
Chapter 24 of Sources of the Self
(Cambridge U. Press, 1989, p. 477) —
“… the object sets up
a kind of frame or space or field
within which there can be epiphany.”
See also Talking of Michelangelo.
Related material for comedians —
Literature ad absurdum —
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Thursday, July 18, 2019
Enveloping-Algebra Note, 1983
Click for the pages below at Internet Archive.
Enveloping algebras also appeared later in the work on "crystal bases"
of Masaki Kashiwara. It seems highly unlikely that his work on enveloping
algebras, or indeed any part of his work on crystal bases, has any relation
to my own earlier notes.
A 1995 page by Kashiwara —
Kashiwara was honored with a Kyoto prize in 2018:
Kashiwara's 2018 Kyoto Prize diploma —
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Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Space
It's Space Week at Camp Google.
“… the object sets up
a kind of frame or space or field
within which there can be epiphany.”
— Charles Taylor
“My little baby sister can do it with ease.
It’s easier to learn than those ABC’s.”
— Kylie Minogue
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Wednesday June 25, 2008
Prize Dance
“I would not know what the spirit
of a philosopher might wish more
to be than a good dancer.
For the dance is his ideal,
also his art, and finally also his
only piety, his ‘service of God.'”
Charles Taylor, winner
of this year’s Kyoto Prize
in arts and philosophy:
“… the object sets up
a kind of frame or space or field
within which there can be epiphany.”
“My little baby sister
can do it with ease.
It’s easier to learn
than those ABC’s.”
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Wednesday June 25, 2008
Born 100 years ago today:
Other approaches to the
eight-ray star figure
have been sketched in
various Log24 entries.
See, for instance, the
June 21 entries on
the Kyoto Prize for
arts and philosophy.
Quine won this prize
in 1996.
Quine’s figure, cited in an
argument against universals,
is also a classic symbol for
the morning or evening star.
This year’s winner 
of the Kyoto Prize has
a more poetic approach
to philosophy:
“… the object sets up
a kind of frame or space or field
within which there can be epiphany.”
For one such frame or space,
a Mexican cantina, see
Shining Forth.
See also Damnation Morning and
The Devil and Wallace Stevens. Charles Taylor. See
“Epiphanies of Modernism,”
Chapter 24 of Sources of the Self
(Cambridge U. Press, 1989, p. 477)
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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Saturday June 21, 2008
for lifetime achievement
in arts and philosophy
this year goes to
Charles Taylor,
Montreal philosophy professor.
“The Kyoto Prize has been given in three domains since 1984:
advanced technology, basic sciences, and the arts and philosophy.
It is administered by the Inamori Foundation, whose president,
Kazuo Inamori, is founder and chairman emeritus of Kyocera and
KDDI Corporation, two Japanese telecommunications giants.”
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“The Kyocera brand symbol is composed of a corporate mark |
Related material —
Charles Taylor,
“Epiphanies of Modernism,”
Chapter 24 of Sources of the Self
(Cambridge U. Press, 1989, p. 477) —
“… the object sets up
a kind of frame or space or field
within which there can be epiphany.”
See also Talking of Michelangelo.
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