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Le real de
Minerve beginnt erst
mit der einbrechenden Dämmerung seinen Flug
I am now self-publishing my works
through Éditions le Real
(established by me) and www.Lulu.com.
I will eventually publish a few things by family and friends, but I
am not soliciting manuscripts. I am very happy with Lulu.com but I
am not committed to self-publication and would gladly cut a deal
with a legit publisher
(FAQ about these topics here.)
Publications
Substantific Marrow (300 pages or so
for $17 or so, including postage, or $3.75 for an e-book) consists
of about 70 pieces from Idiocentrism -- more carefully edited, and
in many cases rewritten. These pieces are as diverse as the site has
been, but they have been thematically grouped, so the effect
is less chaotic.
Relics: Poems 1967-1980 is what it says
-- the leavings of my brief poetic career. About $12 for 50 or so
short poems.
Cursing the Darkness, collected
polemics, is forthcoming.
Later I will publish books on Inner Eurasian
History and Chinese culture.
Buy
here
The available books can be bought at
http://stores.lulu.com/emersonj.
Substantific Marrow
John Emerson
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Reviews
of Substantific Marrow
His arguments, conjoining
tidbits of history you never knew about or never thought
of relating to each other and suggesting contacts and
influences standard history knows not of, take side
roads that tend to be far more enlivening than the
well-trodden highway that bored us in high school. If
you're going to read about Aristotle, would you rather
it be in the context of analytics and the five elements
or the sex life of molluscs? I thought so.
His credo is "To me studies of
concrete particulars (history, geography, philology) are
infinitely more interesting than their theoretical
explanations, and the fully-theorized studies
(marginalist economics, analytic philosophy, 'literary
studies') are abominations," and I happily subscribe to
it. If you prefer shiny and unusual facts and
suggestions to the dull coin of Standard Theories, this
is the book for you.
Language Hat
Emerson puts himself squarely in the
camp of the Renaissance humanists, like Rabelais and
Bacon, who derided scholasticism (and he uses the same
word, equating it with modern analytic philosophy) for
its narrowminded pedantry—and in Rabelais's case, for
its lack of fun. John wants the humanities to be kept at
the generalist level—he wants it still to be fun. And so
he contributes, with both his blog and his new book, to
our enjoyment of the humanities at the generalist level.
Varieties of Unreligious Experience
Michael Blowhard
An
Elegant Author Deserving of the Patronage of a Refined
and Enlightened Public
I am currently holding my
lovely, brand-new copy of
John Emerson's
Substantific Marrow.
If you enjoy this blog, then it is very likely that you,
too, want to
buy a copy of
Substantific Marrow, though you may not
be aware of this fact.
Cosma Shalizi
John Emerson has
self-published a book of essays. They're short and
wildly varied -- a really funny reaction to one of the
sillier bits of Freud; an argument for atheism based on
the proposition that God couldn't hide in a sock drawer;
a piece ranging from the Barbary pirates, through the
mutiny on which Billy Budd was based, to The Good Ship
Ruben James; reviews of books, mostly history; and
unclassifiable bits of other stuff..... If this is
the sort of thing you like, it's a great book to have in
your bag for a commute, or any time you have fifteen
minutes to read a couple of pages on something odd.
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Contents:
Ressentiment and Schooling
/ Could Nietzsche have Married Jane Austen? /
Van Gogh as Chump / Gautier's Hippo / Oafs and Wimps / Madame
Bovary as Train Wreck / Max Jacob says hi, sort of / What Was
Wittgenstein? / A Naďve Reading of Descartes / Aristotle and Mollusc
Sex / Kenneth Burke Faked it Too / The Heap /
What Was Cratylus Trying to Say? / Parmenides in Szechuan / On the
Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the Philosophers /
Simples / Freud and Reality /
Panurge and The Confidence Man
/ Third-world Joyce / Staying at Home / Snapping Lovely Necks /
Square Ibsen / Who was Humbert Humbert? /
Aucassin et Nicolette
/ Two Misreadings
Medieval Minimalism / God /
What is Le Real? /
The Re-al and The Real /
Le Saumon Real /
Y schal do awey al substaunce / The Waters Above the Firmament / All
Roads Lead to Rome / Etymological Vaginas / Hemoglobin and
Alchemy / Fish Milk /
You are what you eat / Hobson-Jobson / Has anyone ever read this
book? / Bottle and Potato Traced to the Source / The Muskogee /
Waukesha / Bismarck Triangle /
Marion Brown's Trilogy / "On Eagle's Wings" / "To the Shores of
Tripoli" / A Wild Ride / The Authenticity and Feng Shui of Bob Dylan
/ Satie and the Sewing Machine /
W. C. Fields and the American Family Comedy / The Turkish Kayak /
The Lost King of England / The Crimean Goths / The Last Pagans / The
Last Viking / The Torgut Exodus /
The Coming of the Age of Iron / Silk and Memes / History of the
Caucasian Albanians
700-Year-Old Syriac Jokes /
The
Secret History and Western Literature /
The Barbarian Reservoir / Murder Most Foul / Does the Bush Protect
the Little Bird? / Drakon and Solon /
The Cynic Emperor / Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss / Agamben and
Schmitt / Werewolves and the State / Orwell and Pacifism /
Philosophers and Nuclear War /
Transience and Water
70 little essays delivered
to your door for $17
Relics
Poems 1967-1980
John Emerson
The first you I will dissolve in my mouth
for sweetness;
but the next I will impatiently crunch.
Then I will rub you all over my body
and be refreshed;
and strew you about my little house.
One you I will put in my pocket
so as never to be without you;
I may send others
to my mother and sisters.
The finest you will fly on high
to dominate the earth;
after that I will save my favorite parts
and give the rest to the poor.
50
poems delivered to your door for $13
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