{"id":337,"date":"2008-12-11T03:44:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T07:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2022-04-11T23:51:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T03:51:28","slug":"questions-for-mark-lilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2008\/12\/questions-for-mark-lilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions for Mark Lilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-338\" title=\"Mark Lilla\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/lilla.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Lilla\" width=\"215\" height=\"212\" \/>The Social Science Research Council has just posted on its website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssrc.org\/features\/questions\/mark-lilla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an interview I did with Mark Lilla<\/a>, professor of humanities at Columbia and, most recently, author of <em>The Stillborn God<\/em>. We had a most pleasant conversation. In particular, I asked about his experience of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssrc.org\/blogs\/immanent_frame\/category\/the-stillborn-god\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the discussion about his book on the SSRC&#8217;s blog, The Immanent Frame<\/a>. Lilla&#8217;s enthusiasm, hopefully, will encourage other academics to participate in discussions outside of the usual medieval media of journals, conference panels, and monographs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>How did you find your Immanent Frame experience?<\/strong> I enjoyed having people well known in the field responding quickly to what I wrote. What was also good is that they knew I&#8217;d get to respond to them as well. They had to develop what they thought were their strongest arguments and not make ad hominem attacks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Was the discussion productive?<\/strong> Very productive, especially the exchanges with Jos\u00e9 Casanova. I saw him in Washington after our exchanges, and both of us were saying, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it great we could do this?&#8221; He had misunderstood just what the book was about, and I had misunderstood what he was driving at. Blogging about it led to a quick, mutual clarification. A little bit of that happened with Chuck Taylor as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-338\" title=\"Mark Lilla\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/lilla.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Lilla\" width=\"215\" height=\"212\" \/>The Social Science Research Council has just posted on its website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssrc.org\/features\/questions\/mark-lilla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an interview I did with Mark Lilla<\/a>, professor of humanities at Columbia and, most recently, author of <em>The Stillborn God<\/em>. We had a most pleasant conversation. In particular, I asked about his experience of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssrc.org\/blogs\/immanent_frame\/category\/the-stillborn-god\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the discussion about his book on the SSRC&#8217;s blog, The Immanent Frame<\/a>. Lilla&#8217;s enthusiasm, hopefully, will encourage other academics to participate in discussions outside of the usual medieval media of journals, conference panels, and monographs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>How did you find your Immanent Frame experience?<\/strong> I enjoyed having people well known in the field responding quickly to what I wrote. What was also good is that they knew I&#8217;d get to respond to them as well. They had to develop what they thought were their strongest arguments and not make ad hominem attacks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Was the discussion productive?<\/strong> Very productive, especially the exchanges with Jos\u00e9 Casanova. I saw him in Washington after our exchanges, and both of us were saying, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it great we could do this?&#8221; He had misunderstood just what the book was about, and I had misunderstood what he was driving at. Blogging about it led to a quick, mutual clarification. A little bit of that happened with Chuck Taylor as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54,79,50,73],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-conversation","tag-criticism","tag-technology","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5611,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/5611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}