Friend of the department Joshua Clover, dead at 62
Here are a couple of loving remembrances with short excerpts of Joshua's uncompromising thought from each:
The Truth is the Whole: Remembering Joshua Clover
"If we are reaching into history, I am still very fond of the very simple formula, 'the truth is the whole.' That's Hegel. Of course, I never will know the whole (which I admit makes me sad; that sadness is my hubris), but it remains very uncertain that because the whole is unknowable, one shouldn't try. 'The whole' is a kind of horizon, or limit. I am not so into giving up in the face of its great distance from us. I swim in that direction."
Value Theory for the End of the World
"Theory helps think how to intervene or it is nothing."
Modified on May 01, 2025