I was re-reading Thomas Nagel's wonderful essay 'Death' and looked to see where it first appeared. I expected it to be NYRB or some such, but it was Nous. I can't imagine it being published there or indeed in any other top journal today, and our journals are all the worse for it.
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@csandis
Funny, just yesterday I read his "The Absurd" and had the same reaction (though it was Journal Of Philosophy not Nous)
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@csandis
👉🏼 “It is sometimes suggested that what we really mind is the process of dying. But I should not really object to dying if it were not followed by death.”
Thomas Nagel or Monty Python. 🤣🤣
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@csandis
I am filing this tweet under "reasons why not" for every person who says to me that I should be in Academia........ (I have a long list now!)
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@csandis
I like it and use it to teach the harm of death issue sometimes. Some critical points are less than clear tho imo.
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@LauraLuzSilva
This is a wonderful thread. So true. Most of the texts I love by psychoanalysts and philosophers would never get published in journals now
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