Friday, December 10, 2004
(8:26 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Friday Afternoon Confessional: Announcements
I am extending St. Paul Week through the weekend to give everyone who wanted to post an opportunity to do so. I am willing to go into next week as well, if necessary. I have been very pleased with all the contributions and with the conversations that have developed out of them. Once everyone has said all they want to say, I plan on writing up a post compiling links to all the St. Paul Week writings, then making a link to that post a permanent monument on one of the sidebars.Now, onto the confessions: I always feel guilty calling off work, even when I have been feeling sick for days; I am always overly persuaded by the last person I talked to about my personal life; I have been an insensitive asshole; I have not worked as diligently on my papers as I should have; I have let French fall by the wayside these last couple weeks; I am really tired of waking up and being in the process of suffocating on my own snot. Also, I am not writing the promised "Pauline" confessional because I have no idea what that would mean.
Thank you, and have a pleasant day.
UPDATE: Since I'm working on a paper in which I use Carl Schmitt, I'd also like to confess a somewhat old sin. In my statement of purpose for theology programs, I included a list of "Christian thinkers" who had noted the theological roots of modern philosophical and political concepts, and on that list of "Christian thinkers" was, without qualification or caveat, Carl Schmitt. I can definitely see a lot of Christians not wanting to claim him as one of their own. I also included what might have been interpreted as a potshot at Milbank in my statement of purpose for Nottingham, where Milbank is currently teaching.
I always thought that Freud was hitting on something important in Beyond the Pleasure Principle. My mom worried when I first started reading Freud that I was in it primarily for the sex (she hadn't actually read him at that point), but I think it was more specifically for the self-destructive impulses.
