Dr. Lawrence Nannery

What to say without saying too much? I was born in 1942, and have degrees in philosophy and political science from Columbia University and the New School for Social Research, and there is very little that I am not interested in. I have studied all of the social sciences, only to find out that they were not "scientific" in the strong sense. But I did come away with a lack of piety about those disciplines. For example, I do not believe in economists, but I do relish economic history.
At 32 I went to the New School to study philosophy and found a home. I became, in turn, an expert on Hannah Arendt, on Aristotle, Plato, and later wrote a long book on Kafka, the smartest guy on the planet. I founded a philosophy journal that has survived to this day.
I have taught over time at a dozen colleges, in New York and London, but got attached to none, and worked often as a social worker or in some other region of social services.
It's all the manic depression thing, either an undirected layabout or a man visiting many research institutions seeking out the least known detail of something I cannot live without getting to the bottom of.
Up until some months ago I was working on another long project, in the philosophy of history, which I have taught several times, but it burgeoned so greatly I had an outline of several hundred pages and left the project out of boredom. But I have just taken it up again. If I get busy as a dung beetle, I could write on what I have already learned about this subject primarily, though I assert with full confidence that everything interests me, and even I cannot predict exactly where I will wind up on a given topic.



	Cinema - The Complete Art Form by Dr. Lawrence Nannery I believe that the cinema has always been the “Complete Art Work” sought by every high civilization since the Greek democracy under Pericles.In German, the term is Gesamtkunstwerk, used by Wagner to descri
	Art, High and Low by Dr. Lawrence Nannery It is to me an amazing fact that today the common opinion is that there is no difference between high and low art, high and low culture. The point of this paper is to reiterate the differences, and to explore reasons for the current confu
	Blog #4 - A New Paradigm? by Dr. Lawrence Nannery The reason for fluctuations in the capitalist economies was found over time to be the accumulation of inventories, which, unchecked, often slowed and then stopped production sooner or later. Solving this problem was t

	Blog #3 by Dr. Lawrence Nannery What has been shown in the two previous blogs (blog 1 & blog 2 ) is some of the history of the development of one country’s version of capitalism, up to the near present.
	Blog #2 by Dr. Lawrence Nannery
	Blog #1 by Dr. Lawrence Nannery
	Heidegger without Tears by Dr. Lawrence Nannery Review of Martin Heidegger. Between Good and Evil by Rudiger Safranski (translated by Ewald Osers)Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998This book is an att