Mark Larrimore, Author at Public Seminar

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New School Histories Vertical

Announcing a new vertical for Public Seminar

July 9, 2018 • by Mark Larrimore and Julia Foulkes

Editors: Mark Larrimore and Julia Foulkes A school for the present. In 1918, the New Republic-based creators of what would become the New School for Social Research* called for a re-thinking of what higher education could be. Universities were hamstrung by backward-looking legacies and structures, both institutional and intellectual. Education needed to ...

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Redesigning The New School Histories Website

An announcement

July 8, 2018 • by Julia Foulkes, Mark Larrimore and Wendy Scheir

We are delighted to announce that we have re-designed the New School Histories website. The site features a more compelling design, a tagging system that brings together materials about particular topics, and an expanded search function -- all thanks to the website developer Katerina Vaseva, a New School alum. People is a collection ...

Redesigning The New School Histories Website

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Simone Weil, Friend of Job

Confronting the Beauty of the Terror of our Existence

December 7, 2016 • by Mark Larrimore

An aphorism by Simone Weil sits atop a manuscript I’ve never been able to finish. The manuscript is called “The Problem of Good” and the quotation from Weil goes: Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, ...

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The Book of Job as Community Theater

Readings after Superstorm Sandy and other disasters

March 10, 2014 • by Mark Larrimore

The only American member of the original General Seminar after which this website is named was the philosopher Horace Kallen. Kallen is mainly remembered now for his theory of “cultural pluralism,” but among scholars of the Book of Job he is known for the quixotic idea ...