David Carr

The Night of the Gun: A reporter investigates the darkest story of his life. His own.
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To my mind this book should have been titled "The Night I Left My Babies in the Car Alone for Hours in the Middle of Winter in Front of A Crack House So I Could Go In and Score." That scene was the emotional core of the book as far as I'm concerned.

"I walked toward the darkened car with drugs in my pocket and a cold dread in all corners of my being," the author writes. "I could see their breath. God had looked after the twins, and by proxy me, but I realized at that moment that I had made a mistake... I made a decision at that instant never to be that man again."

Well, the author's intent was good, yet still it took quite a few rehabs to sober up. But at least his story, and that of his children, ends well. To see his byline in the New York Times these days makes you realize how easily he could have been just another obit in the same paper.

The hook of a journalist investigating his own story was what drew me in. But, truthfully, I really didn't care whose memories among this sorry, addicted lot were accurate and whose not. That one of them wielded a gun one night - the author? the author's friend? - isn't a particularly shocking event sandwiched as it is between hundreds of similarly depraved scenes.

I read this book in batches. I had too. The sordidness got to me every few chapters and I had to put it down. If I could just summon a little more of that prurient interest the bottom-feeding public is so widely credited with having, I might rate books like this higher than I do.

Phenomenology and the Problem of History: A Study of Husserl's Transcendental Philosophy (SPEP)
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Examines the paradox between Husserl's transcendental philosophy and his later historicist theory. Rejecting the arguments of earlier critics, this book proposes a model of the transcendental philosopher who balances historical reduction with a strict mind of historical context.

Time, Narrative, and History (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
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I read this book when it first appeared years ago just after I had finished my dissertation on Heidegger. I'm glad that I did not read it earlier, because it made me rethink my understanding of the entire phenomenological tradition, and I would have had to start my dissertation all over! Carr is much more than an interpreter of Husserl, et al (he is that too); he is an original thinker who has a great gift for placing the reader at the center of the inquiry.
I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism, and to anyone who understands that history is not a collection of facts but the context in which we exist.

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