spring 2026

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“Literary ascension” and “the end of ‘Literature’?” continue my literary-conceptual project. I expect that all of the discussions listed from January 30 through today will soon be sections of one listed project on “Literature” as early 21^st century notion.

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March 23 | “What is ‘Literature’ better understood to be?,” “glyphicality as narrative,” and “engaging text made to speak” are a series (meant to be read in sequence) which continues my literary-conceptual project.

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response to ambivalent praise for Habermas

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German philosophy professor Ruth Edith Hegengruber, Director of the Center for History of Women Philosophers and Scientists in Germany, posted a memorial article on Habermas at her Facebook account and at a Heidegger forum which I discuss below.

The text of her German article is available below (“Europa heute”) along with a translation (“Europe Today”). My discussion doesn’t address her criticisms of recent history in Europe (I’m a U.S. reader) nor her praise for Habermas. Rather, I want to address her critical comments which seem based on misunderstanding.

This is also a chance to sketch what Habermas’s thinking might best be supposed to entail for progressive practice and practical thinking, though briefly, occasioned by Hegengruber’s discussion.

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Heidegger’s politics: from interpersonal lifeto new generationality

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My brief “beyond ‘God’: danger of authentic life” follows a lot of discussion (unmentioned) where a reader who was interested in political extremism associated that with theologian Judith Wolfe’s article on Heidegger as appar-
ently dangerous to neo-Scholasticism, as if—for the extremist—Heidegger shows solidarity with extremism because he’s supposedly anti-modern
(he isn’t), then also anti-Catholic (he isn’t).

My discussion with the extremist sympathizer evinced for me some constructive themes of Heidegger’s thinking which I want to share here.

These are extracted from comments elsewhere, so some of the passages here may seem to be non sequiturs:

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winter 2026

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“Beyond “God”: danger of authentic life” responds to a scholastic dispute
at an online discussion group. It may be useful for anyone who believes that Heidegger is anti-theological. He’s anti-dogmatism. It’s a distraction from working to derive a better sense of literary-conceptual work, which will continue from my February discussions soon.

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Feb. 20 | “creating novel wilderness isn’t about tourism” prospects more interest in literary creativity.

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Feb. 13 | Three more sections of a manifold exploration of “literary” dramactionality today: “being literary,“ “the humanistic origin of literary texting,“ and “the usual ‘Literature’.“ The project will have many sections,
later to be listed as a single set of cohering discussions.

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purposive rationality

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Being pretty old has given me confidence that I’ve lived a good life—not to be much remembered, I guess, but who is?

Narrative traces can leave a mark on Earth worth another’s time—not like stone, but better than unseen flowers.

Anyway, sentimentality doesn’t work.

Love your ownmost work, at best responding to resplendent horizonal appeals of Purpose.

autumn 2025

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My intent to write about aspiration led me into wanting to be clearer to myself about what I’m ultimately doing with all my projects: how does it all cohere purposefully? 



I’ve gained satisfactory conceptions of It All. But its density of articulation, 
its semantic compression, wouldn’t make sense without extensive explication. 
Actually, my plurality of projects is gradually doing that explication, but through focused, topical occasions. It’s not that the projects have lacked a tacitly cohering implicature of The Project evolving across cycles. It’s not that I’ve needed to gain a cohering which was lacking. 


summer 2025

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Narrativity is an elastic thing, like phenomenality, or “Literary” sensibility.

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Sept. 5 | The eight short parts of “iso-belonging” prospect my interest in isomorphic thinking relative to aspects of belonging, from a horizon of PCS continuum (August 25 below) to conceptual modeling of action. It’s the last part of “a person-al humanity,” which prospects a differential holism of being, scaled from inner psychality to political life.

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