Just read this article by Ben Domenech in the Federalist. 

http://thefederalist.com/2016/09/14/blame-the-elites-for-the-trump-phenomenon/

https://aeon.co/ideas/what-makes-zombies-so-scary-hint-it-s-not-the-brain-eating

The author, David Andrew Stoler, argues that the figure of the zombie embodies the human fear of 

In Part V of The Ethics, Spinoza writes that 'there is necessarily in God an idea which expresses the essence of this or that human body under a form of eternity [sub specie aeternitatis].' Insofar as the human mind, comprised of modes of the divine mind, is the idea of the body, and insofar as the divine mind is eternal, then from the perspective of eternity, there is always, in the mind of God, this idea. Hence, 'The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.'  [ . . . ]

Here's an interesting article by Martha Nussbaum on anger. 

https://aeon.co/essays/there-s-no-emotion-we-ought-to-think-harder-about-than-anger


Her diagnosis and prescription remind me a great deal of Nietzsche's treatment of ressentiment in On the Genealogy of Morality and elsewhere. 

Recently, I've been reading Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men with my good friend and former colleague, Kerry Walters. Here are a few thoughts: 

https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-that-gender-is-a-spectrum-is-a-new-gender-prison

In this article, Rebecca Reilly-Cooper argues against the spectrum model of thinking about gender. She argues that, while the idea of gender as a spectrum is supposed to be liberating, it is in fact incoherent and politically problematic.  . . . (To read the remainder of this post, click 'Read More')

Welcome to my personal and professional blog. My name is Vernon W. Cisney, and I am currently a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, USA. My primary areas of research are contemporary continental philosophy, philosophy of film and literature, and social and political philosophy. I am the author of Derrida's Voice and Phenomenon: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide, and the co-editor of Biopower: Foucault and Beyond, as well as The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace: Philosophical Footholds on Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. In addition, I am the creator and organizer of The Gettysburg College Philosophy and Film Seminar, the inaugural session of which was titled 'The Thought of Terrence Malick.' . . . (To read the remainder of this post, click 'Read More').