Hegel will be the subject of a reading/talk happening tonight at Pilot Books. To give an idea of my side of the reading/talk:

The books next to my bed: Sunday, July 25, 2010

  • The books next to my bed: Sunday, July 25, 2010

And also:

The philosopher: It should be noted that, on the whole, children love their parents less than their parants love them…

The commentator:
From her deathbed, my mother looks up at me and I look away from her sad eyes: my love for her is nowhere near her love for me. Even here, in the middle of her final hours, I love her less than she loves me. My mother is leaving the world with the clear understanding that I will not miss her in the way she will miss me. I know this understanding because I love her grandson more than he loves me. When ever I look at him, try to look at his eyes directly, he turns away from this understanding—he could never love me with the same intensity. Not in him is the will to one day miss me as much as I will certainly miss him.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

11 replies on “The Happening at Seven: Charles Mudede & Leonard Schwartz on Hegel”

  5. OMG, you are so worldly, prophetic, scholarly and extraordinarily intelligent. How do you handle looking at yourself in the mirror without your head exploding like a giant cock/Columbia Tower of jizz all over your bathroom ?! ?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

  6. CHARLES!!! i saw a photograph of you in the Seattle times and you were SMILING!!!! i’m SHOCKED!!!! how could YOU! Hegel never EVER smiled! i’m sure he was agelastic (look it up, smartyboots).

  7. Charles, that disparity is one of the most shocking things a young person can realize. I’m amused by how shaken up I still get thinking of it.

  8. The books that are in the various piles around my apartment (beside the bed, ON the bed, stacked on the back of the sofa, still in the bags I carried them home in, etc. ) are much more likely to get read than the ones in the book cases. Once they are shelved, it could be years before I pick them up again. Best wishes, Charles.

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