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08/12/2006: "From Marx to Wittgenstein?"
I have spent the last six weeks reading Marx almost exclusively. Now I begin the difficult transition back to my dissertation research. I got what looks like an interesting book on Russell and his contemporaries, and took out the library copy of Principa Mathematica (henceforth referred to as "The Bible.") Unfortunately, the library has only the second edition of PM, not the 1910 edition that Wittgenstein would have studied. Most unfortunate!
I went this morning and got a new stereo in the car. Previously I have been using my mp3 player through a tape adapter to allow for some versatility to adjust music to my given taste (which often varies from hour to hour), but the tape deck was starting to be fussy with the adapter. Now I have a brand new CD deck, one which will allow me to play mp3's from a CD-RW (how cool is that!) and which includes an auxilary 1/8" input to allow me to use the mp3 player still. It's the first time in my life I've actually had anything other than the factory deck installed im my ride (thus pimpin' it, as they say) despite the fact that I sold many while I was working sales in high school and college.
I plan to knock off the rest of my weekend grading for Monday, helping N. paint and reading a bit of Russell. The FPA deadline is Monday, but I doubt I will be able to edit an old paper in time. Perhaps next year.
Two weeks off until the new semester begins. I will not be able to make it up to Chicago as planned, but instead plan to occupy my time by (gasp!) maybe finishing off a chapter.
