[see also part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8]OK, here begins a series of posts I warned you about
earlier in response to
Nate's post on
Cezanne and Merleau-Ponty, in which I will revisit 'my first, last, and only' decent political philosophy paper from college, written senior year (= two years ago). The course ("Contemporary Continental Political Thought") was awesome, inspiring, and incredibly idiosyncratic, placing a special emphasis on Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt, and especially Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and, blessedly, hardly a word from Derrida, Foucault or other politicized non-political thinkers. Like the course itself, my paper was purely based on what I liked, and is rather, ah, impressionistic. But probably at least as worthwhile as anything else you might read in this space otherwise, and if you follow what I write here regularly it will give you some insight into where I'm coming from. I'll put the bibliography up front, so you know what the paper, and its footnotes, are referring to:
Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition.
Berlin, Isaiah. The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and their History.
Clausewitz, Carl von. On War.
Gramsci, Antonio. Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci.
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Signs.
Schmitt, Carl. The Concept of the Political.
Schmitt, Carl. Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty.
Weber, Max. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology.
(Posting will be light, otherwise, over the next few days as I do actual work at work and prepare for the GRE at home.)