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Martin Kavka

@kavkaesque.bsky.social

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Religion prof, fan (and sometimes hatereader) of fashion and wedding journalism. Nothing I write here represents my employer.

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Sep 8

Man Is Denied A Loan

Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Sep 8

God’s Presence in History Departments

Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Sep 4

Time to republish this book in a second edition that contains the line “My slutty pajamas not temptin' him in the least”????

Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 31

Very little deciphering skills on my part! On the hunch that the owner might have cited the volume in a publication, I googled “‘patrum apostolicorum’ ‘a. a.’”

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 31

I think it’s A. A. Hobson, who seems to have written a dissertation at Chicago in 1904 on the synoptic problem.

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 28

“Might improvement also be possible?,” he asked as he began work on _Critique of Tom Clancy’s Judgment_.

Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 28

Tom Clancy’s Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism.

(OTOH, I heartily look forward to Tom Clancy’s Star of Redemption.)

Reposted by Jacob Montgomery, Rebecca Tushnet, Martin Kavka

Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 27

There is nothing outside the score to keep it — Derrida

Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 25

Somewhere in my brain is a short short story about Schl, maker of eggs.

Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 21

Perhaps. But he *is* only an assistant.

Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 21

"managing editor for trust"??!!??!!

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 19

I'd associate Mendelssohn with The Ramones and Cohen with Hüsker Dü, but I respect this list immensely.

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 19

My colleagues and I received an email reminder today about our institution's "resilience tools." There were no emoji in that email, though.

Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 13

Frankie Goes To Rancho Cucamonga

Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 10

Were you wearing dungarees in a dungeon when this happened?

Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Aug 7

Please continue these jokes; otherwise, I will sing to myself "Adam, I'm empty since you left me / Trying to find a way to carry on."

Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Jul 30

Can I now start referring to helicopters as pterohelices?

Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Jul 30

Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Jul 25

Sometimes, when a boy and a synthesizer love each other very much…

Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Jul 23

Thanks for sharing. (I was not expecting the Hegel reference in this essay!)

Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Jul 14

Someone has read five books while
snuggling by both Alice Walker *and* Marilynn Robinson!

Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Jul 12

I also noted that Joseph Bottum is this fall’s visiting scholar. It’s a possibly gutsy choice. The story of his leaving _First Things_ is still largely untold; I had the (fallible!) sense at that time that the Board of Directors wished to sweep things under the rug.

Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Jul 12

Sure. But the well-paidness is not necessarily as obscene as your original post made it seem — some humanists at publics make over 185k — although I believe this salary range to be somewhat obscene within this institution’s ecosystem.

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Jul 12

I think you sell yourself short! But to the best of my knowledge, it is the case that this salary range is quite out of proportion to what CU Boulder pays full professors in the humanities, and even in the social sciences.

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Jul 12

What is the antecedent of “it”?

Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Jul 5

Nicolas de Warren’s book on WWI for the first pair? Nothing on the second as far as I know. My essay on phenomenology in the _Camb Hist_ volume may be helpful for either pairing (since I see Cohen as unlike Scheler, for reasons implicit there). Or it may not be of any help at all, and that is okay!!

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Jul 5

DN is not making the structural point about apophaticism that ERW is. But there’s no reason why they can’t be read as being on the same page.

Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Jul 4

Not all mysticism is apophatic in the way that the Bilderverbot suggests it should be, no? (And even Pseudo-D is not so apophatic at the end of the day, if I recall David Newheiser’s book correctly.)

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Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social · Jun 25

And the scenes with Kathryn Hahn.