Sunday, April 17, 2005
(12:09 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Detour
The past few weeks have been pretty turbulent for me. I don't have a job, so I probably should have finished up the Justin Martyr and the Iraeneus, but I've mainly just been stressing out over which grad school to go to, and how I've kind of gotten out of the habit of paying off my credit card every month, and a lot of other stuff -- basically, I have spent my whole day stressing out and talking to people on IM about how I'm stressing out. Throughout that whole time, I have only been able to do four things consistently:- Do the dishes every day
- Post something on the blog every day
- Read the epistle for the next week's class every day (this week it's James, which is some really good stuff once you've read through it about four times and start to see some more structure to it)
- Read a session of Lacan's seminar every day.
After stumbling through the first five pages, I parsed out that Lacan was, I think, trying to send me the message that I wasn't going to get much out of what was to follow if I didn't read Critique of Practical Reason first. I haven't read it, but I thought, since I'm trying to be obedient here, I might as well just print it off the Internet and read it -- only about 100 pages, no big deal. Then I related my situation to Anthony and said I hoped that Kant wouldn't say, "Now, you'll never understand what I'm saying if you haven't read Critique of Pure Reason." Turns out, he does. It looks like I'm ultimately going to end up having to get a PhD in philosophy before I can return to the next session of that Lacan seminar. It's a shame, because I had a pretty good rhythm going there for a couple weeks. I'm sure CTS will let me defer.
