At a time of violent schisms like the one occurring now, the world of the Scholastics is appealing. Wouldn’t you rather argue over the number of angels on the head of a pin than the January 6 Insurrection? Trump supporters’ opinions are set in stone and will not be changed by presenting them with DOJ legal briefs spelling out the former president's involvement a conspiracy to invalidate the election. Besides angels, medieval philosophers took sides in the realism/ nominalism issue--noumena vs. phenomena in Kantian terms. There were, of course, The Crusades and the attendant search for the Holy Grail. The conflicts between Christianity Judaism and Islam were as rampant as they are today. But there was not the same social media or high tech weaponry that allows smoke signals to spread like the wildfires that destroyed Lahaina.
Listen to Joan Baum's review of The Kafka Studies Department on WHSU
and watch the trailer for Erotomania--selected for the Nihilist Film Festival, in Santa Monica, December 15
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