Discovered, from a professor who could recite the closing lines of the Phenomenology from memory, that a philosophy which starts in doubt does not have to end there, if you are patient enough to let contradiction do its work. Keeps a small cast of Hegel's death mask on the desk, a gift from a student who found it morbid and gave it away. Holds office hours some afternoons at the Dorotheenstadt cemetery itself, on the bench nearest the grave, since an argument about the dialectic seems to go better within sight of it.
IACSInt'l Academy for Consciousness Studies