[Alan White]Alan White
Mark Hopkins Professor of Philosophy
Williams College

                                   Doing my best here to “appear on thought,” perhaps “frepuently.”


Take a look at my curriculum vitae.

Get some information on my current research project, including a brief introduction new as of Fall 2007, by going to www.structureandbeing.com.

Read the beginning of my most recent article, on the Borges story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"; this page also has links to images that will be of interest to those who know the story.

Read "The Insignificant Other:  Towards a Postmodern Aristotelian Humanism", written for a Williams College faculty seminar on "The Problem of the Other" in 1988.

Read "The End of Philosophy", a lecture I presented to a general audience in 1991.

Read as much as you like of Within Nietzsche's Labyrinth, published in 1990.

Read the first chapter of my as-yet-unpublished novel Nothing Matters.  Take a look at some responses from agents.

Read the first chapter of the as-yet-unpublished first installment (Revenge) of my as-yet-unfinished trilogy Motherblood.  Take a look at some responses from agents.

View some Nietzsche-inspired art created by Earl R. Nitschke.

Take a closer look at the letter I received from J.R.R. Tolkien when I was 13.

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Check out some pictures I took while participating in a workshop with Isaiah Zagar in Philadelphia. Isaiah is responsible for the magnificent Magic Gardens (his site: http://www.philadelphiasmagicgardens.org/) Isaiah is an urban Andy Goldsworthy (better: Andy is Isaiah outside the city, since Isaiah started first); he makes garbage beautiful. But I digress: I went to a workshop with him in May 2008, and have pictures in three categories. All are labeled with dates and times (so, for example, "5241315a" would mean the first (and perhaps only) picture I took on May 24 (524) at 1:15 PM (1315). The first category is the group project. Because there were more workshop partipants than could always work on the group project, Isaiah had some of us work on other projects; I was given a bit of brick wall to myself, and the second category of pictures are of that. The third category is miscellaneous pictures from Isaiah's workshop, the Magic Gardens, and various other Isaiah sites around South Street in Philadelphia.

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