A research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, Christopher Yates teaches philosophy at James Madison University. His current research focuses on the functions of imagination and longing in the operations of human reason and belief.
The self has never been more securely an object of classification than it is today.
Desire has become longing’s counterfeit.
Cormac McCarthy is provoking us more than we may realize.
A personal library, like a toolshed, lives in a state of frequent and pseudo-fruitful interruption.