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Wright State University

2022

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Vii. Learning Totaste: Praising The Transcendent Rilke’S Sonnets To Orpheus Heidegger Hölderlin Heraclitus, Charles S. Taylor Jan 2022

Vii. Learning Totaste: Praising The Transcendent Rilke’S Sonnets To Orpheus Heidegger Hölderlin Heraclitus, Charles S. Taylor

Wine Journey: Tasting Dwelling Learning at The Kitchen Table

Oh 2005 R. Lopez de Heredia Viña Tondonia Bianco Reserva!

It was to accompany pan-seared sea scallops in a vinagreta of grape seed oil, vinagre de Jerez, chervil, chives and parsley from our garden. The previous bottle had been the best pairing to date. But, the taste of the wine became everything. This fifth and last 2005 from my cellar was unique, similar to neither any of its siblings nor to any other wine. It was expected to be close to one a year earlier. R. Lopez de Heredia wines are not released until ready for drinking; this one had …


Viii. Hieronymus’ Bench: Conversations Dürer Heaney, Auerbach Panofsky, Heidegger Heraclitus, Hölderlin Rilke, Charles S. Taylor Jan 2022

Viii. Hieronymus’ Bench: Conversations Dürer Heaney, Auerbach Panofsky, Heidegger Heraclitus, Hölderlin Rilke, Charles S. Taylor

Wine Journey: Tasting Dwelling Learning at The Kitchen Table

The names in this essay’s sub-title sketch its outline. An image by Albrecht Dürer and a poem by Seamus Heaney, essays by Eric Auerbach and Erwin Panofsky are new inclusions into a rambling immersion into Heraclitus Heidegger Rilke and Hölderlin. The resulting octet gives major solo roles to the new contributors while at the same time deepening the wonder at the questions arising. The first seven chapters and the late-added overture were each written as stand-alone works and had breaks of time separating them. This new essay began before Learning to Taste (Ch. 7) was completed. While completing Learning to …


Introduction, Charles S. Taylor Jan 2022

Introduction, Charles S. Taylor

Wine Journey: Tasting Dwelling Learning at The Kitchen Table

These stories are from of an odyssey that began over 50 years ago. In my final year of college I planned to attend law school. A passage in Plato (Republic III 405a) was the catalyst of an unanticipated realization that I would pursue my goals more authentically teaching philosophy at the college level. Two years earlier (1968) I had made an abrupt change abandoning a chemistry major, and to study in Vienna, Austria for a year, searching to find my own path. My interest in wine did not arise in that year but the seeds that soon grew into a …