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Citizen of the Refrigerator
Have you ever returned a container to the fridge that was so nearly empty no reasonable person could have denied its emptiness—and all because you didn’t want to throw it out?
Leszek Kolakowski, Theorist of Not Gardening
The Polish-born philosopher Leszkek Kolakowski died on July 17, at age 81. Kolakowski was a prolific writer whose works examined topics ranging from Spinoza to Bergson to Husserl and Marxism to seventeenth century Christianity. Here at Phil on Hol, however, he was beloved for a short, satirical work, “The General Theory of Not Gardening,” which was [...]
The Making the Pie Higher Issue
Pie, philosophical “contemplation figures” (as opposed to action figures–brought to you by our good friends at the Think-o Corporation), and lots and lots of stuff from our regular columnists Abby, Barb, Jay, Bruce and Carol. All this and more is yours, in this issue of Phil on Hol from spring(ish) of 2001. Check it out–and [...]
Small Comforts: The post-9/11 issue
Not very long after September 11, 2001, we put together an issue that reflected on the tragedy from a variety of very personal perspectives. We hope you will find some wisdom in this reprint edition. poh-vol-5-no-1-2
Philosophers on Holiday: the Trail Posturing Issue (or maybe the David Bowie Issue)
From the mists of time (the winter of 2003-04, to be exact), comes this archived edition of Phil on Hol, containing Peg’s oft-quoted piece, “The Incredibly Shrinking Private.” Philosophers on Holiday, Volume VII, No. I, Winter 2003-2004
The poodle-ote will ride again!
Rumor has it that all the past issues of Philosophers on Holiday have been pea dee effized, and will soon be available on this very blog! Watch for their running reveal over the next couple weeks!
Aren’t we spiffy?
Like the new banner? Yeah, we do too. Thanks for that go out to Jerry Nowell, GAC web guru extraordinaire. He used images originally created by Lauren Fleer, a graduate of this program and a Dewey watcher. Jerry’s sidekick–and Lisa’s blog coach–is Joe Lencioni. Thank you, one and all, for giving us our spiffy new image!
Friendship Trap warehouse!
If you read issue #25, you no doubt saw the advertisement we printed for friendship traps, the gizmos that allow you to snare a pal to accompany you to the Dairy Queen…. Since accepting that ad, one of our stringers has come upon a whole warehouse of friendship traps. Does demand really warrant this kind [...]