Several days ago, as my flu began to get worse and worse.
Helena: "Daddy sick. Not good." Pause. "Helena will take care."
Things aren't quite so easy, of course, but it's good to know that she wants to help.
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About Helena Iara
Mother: Rita de Cácia Oenning da Silva, the greatest anthropologist of this or any other age
Father: Kurt Shaw, your humble scribe
Grandparents: Walter and Nancy Joe Shaw, Tereza and Martiliano da Silva
Lives in Florianópolis, Brazil, and Santa Fe, New Mexico
About this Blog
Helena Iara was born on April 22, 2010, and that night, to help her relax, I just began to free associate on the history of philosophy. It might seem that talking ontology with a baby would be a one-way conversation, but she responds, reacts... and her mere presence makes me think in different ways than I would talking with a child or an adult. This blog is an informal archive of these conversations, with the vague hope that as was true of Jacques Lacan or Giorgio Agamben, taking childhood and children seriously will make me a better thinker... and a better father.
Topics
- Adam Smith (1)
- Agatha Christie (1)
- Alain Badiou (1)
- Alan White (1)
- Alenka Zupancic (3)
- Alfred Sohn-Rethel (1)
- Anaximander (1)
- André Breton (1)
- Anne Fernald (1)
- Anne Marie Slaughter (1)
- Aretha Franklin (1)
- Aristotle (3)
- Athanasius Kircher (1)
- August Rodin (1)
- Augustine of Hippo (2)
- Bertrand Russell (2)
- Bill Watterson (3)
- Buddha (1)
- Caetano Veloso (1)
- Calderón de la Barca (1)
- capoeira (1)
- Charles Darwin (1)
- Charles Dickens (1)
- Che Guevara (1)
- Chico Buarque (2)
- Claude Levi-Strauss (2)
- Clive Cussler (1)
- Constantin Stanislavsky (1)
- Dan O'Connor (3)
- David Hume (3)
- Democritus (1)
- Diogenes (1)
- Diotema (1)
- Donald Winnicott (2)
- Douglas Adams (2)
- Dr. Seuss (1)
- Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (6)
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1)
- Elizabeth Peters (1)
- Emmanuel Kant (14)
- Emmanuel Levinas (7)
- EO Wilson (1)
- Ernst Bloch (2)
- Ernst Haeckel (1)
- Euripides (1)
- Fairy Tales (1)
- François Julien (1)
- Franz Hinkelammert (6)
- Franz Kafka (1)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (7)
- Friedrich Schleiermacher (1)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1)
- Galileo Galilei (1)
- Gandhi (1)
- Georg Lukacs (1)
- Georg Simmel (1)
- George Berkeley (2)
- Gilberto Gil (1)
- Gilles Deleuze (6)
- Giorgio Agamben (3)
- GWF Hegel (10)
- Hannah Arendt (1)
- Hans-Georg Gadamer (3)
- Hellen Keller (1)
- Helmut Koester (1)
- Henry James (1)
- Heraclitus (1)
- Herbert Marcuse (1)
- hip-hop (2)
- Hipocrisy (1)
- Homer (1)
- Hosea (1)
- Ibn al-Arabi (1)
- Isaias the Prophet (1)
- Jacques Derrida (6)
- Jacques Lacan (11)
- James Madison (1)
- James Scott (1)
- Jean Arp (1)
- Jean Baudrillard (4)
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1)
- Jesus (8)
- JL Austin (5)
- John Coltrane (1)
- John Rawls (1)
- John Stuart Mill (1)
- José Luís Borges (1)
- JRR Tolkien (1)
- Judith Butler (1)
- Julia Kristeva (2)
- Justin Martyr (1)
- Karl Marx (12)
- Kurt Shaw (3)
- Lampião (1)
- Leandro Ramos (1)
- Liberation Theology (3)
- Lord Kelvin (1)
- Louis Althusser (2)
- Lucretius (1)
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (16)
- Luidi da Silva (1)
- Marcel Duchamps (1)
- Marcel Mauss (1)
- Marcus Aurelius (1)
- Maria Bonita (1)
- Marsyas (1)
- Martha Nussbaum (1)
- Martin Buber (1)
- Martin Heidegger (5)
- Mary Douglass (1)
- Matthew the Evangelist (1)
- Maurice Sendak (1)
- MC Okado (1)
- Michel Chion (1)
- Michel Foucault (9)
- Michelangelo (1)
- Milan Kundera (1)
- Mladen Dolar (1)
- Moliére (1)
- Moses (2)
- Mother Jones (1)
- Nagarjuna (1)
- Navajo (1)
- Pablo Picasso (2)
- Pablo Richard (1)
- Parmenides (2)
- Paul of Tarsus (4)
- Paul Ricoeur (1)
- Paulo Freire (3)
- Peter Sloterdijk (1)
- Philipe Ariès (1)
- Photos (3)
- Pierre Hadot (1)
- Pixar (1)
- Plato (8)
- Plotinus (1)
- Pocoyo (3)
- René Descartes (1)
- René Girard (5)
- René Magritte (1)
- Richard Scarry (1)
- Rita da Silva (9)
- Roman Jacobson (1)
- Rudolph Steiner (1)
- Sara Blaffer Hrdy (4)
- Shrek (1)
- Sigmund Freud (7)
- Simón Bolívar (1)
- Slavoj Zizek (9)
- Socrates (7)
- Sor Juana (3)
- Søren Kierkegaard (2)
- Stoicism (1)
- Subcomandante Marcos (1)
- Talking Drums (1)
- Thales (2)
- Thomas Jefferson (1)
- Thomas Malthus (1)
- Thomas Reid (2)
- Tony Hillerman (1)
- Toquinho (1)
- Tupi-Guaraní (6)
- U2 (1)
- Ursula LeGuin (1)
- Virgil (2)
- Vladimir Mayakovsky (1)
- Vsevolod Meyerhold (1)
- Walter Benjamin (6)
- Walter Shaw (2)
- William James (3)
- William Shakespeare (1)
- Zapatistas (1)
- Zeca Baleiro (1)
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