[lit-ideas] Re: losing sight of the Categorical Imperative
- From: Mike Geary <gearyservice@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:48:57 -0500
I'd like to think that the argument was over the pronunciation of Kant's
name -- "Cant" or "Cont" or the Russian pronunciational versions thereof.
That would be something worth arguing over. In her poem "Eve Thinking",
Lucille Clifton has Eve complaining about Adam's lack of ardor and says:
'it is wild country here
brothers and sisters coupling
claw and wing
groping one another
i wait
while the clay two-foot
rumbles in his chest
searching for language to
call me
but he is slow
tonight as he sleeps
i will whisper into his mouth
our names
Romeo wondered "what is in a name?" What? I'll tell you, brother.
Existence.
And Kant can't do a think about it since he don't exist no more.
Mike Geary
I'm sometimes asked do I pronounce it Geary rhyming with "dairy" or Geary
rhyming with "weary". "Depends," I say. "Depends?" they say, "then why
don't you spell it that way?"
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Man in Russia shot with rubber bullet ('I didn't know it was loaded')
> during argument over Kant.
>
> http://www.reuters.com/**article/2013/09/16/us-russia-**kant-shooting-**
> idUSBRE98F0DI20130916<http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/16/us-russia-kant-shooting-idUSBRE98F0DI20130916>
>
> Robert Paul
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