winter 2026

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I have updates on literary-conceptual work, but I want a couple of days to add at the same time more than I have today. Coming.

The death of Jürgen Habermas last weekend caused me to do some updating of my Facebook/Habermas page. Also, I spent too much time defending Habermas at a couple of Heidegger discussion pages, which seems to have been a waste of time. One venture became a blog posting: “response to ambivalent praise for Habermas.”

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Mar. 13

I want to stay away from writing about Heidegger, which is scholastic; but I let myself get drawn into a dispute, resulting in my provocatively titled “beyond ‘God’: danger of authentic life” for an online discussion group. It may be useful for anyone who believes that Heidegger is anti-theological. He’s anti-dogmatism. The discussion is a distraction from working to derive a better sense of literary activity, which will be added to my February discussions (separate postings below) soon.

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Jan. 23

Authoriality of ordinary days doesn’t grant immunity from short illness, but it’s good for soon being “on the mend,” a doctor says to me.

So, I’m “on the road again” (Willie Nelson) of literary venturing—more post cards home, coming soon.

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Jan. 9

Musing about literary sensibility is next. Where that’ll go I do not know.

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