Philosophy

Month: April 2010

  • Is there life after philosophy?

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    heldke

    While traveling back from Baltimore recently, a young man—maybe 24 or 25—wedged his tall self into the middle seat next to me and proceeded to pull out a paperback book by Slavoj Žižek. Žižek, the Slovenian philosopher. That Žižek. Of course I had to talk to him. Confessional time out: I always talk to people…

  • Mark Poppe (’80)

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    heldke

    After graduating from Gustavus, Mark attended Arizona State University studying Architecture and Civil Engineering. He received a BS in Architectural Studies in 1986 and an MS in Civil Engineering in 1990. He has worked the past 20 years in Phoenix, Arizona as a Transportation/Traffic Engineer.