Monthly Archives: November 2013
“What Kind of a God?”
“What Kind of a God?” I have been following, with a mixture of emotions — including curiosity and claustrophobia — C. S. Lewis’s account, in Surprised by Joy, of his conversion to theism (belief in a personal God) from his … Continue reading
Posted in Academe, Art, Culture, Desire, Faith, Gender Balance, history of ideas, life and death struggle, Literature, Masculinity, nineteenth-century, Philosophy, Political, Psychology, Social Conventions, The Examined Life
Tagged Absolute, anthroposophy, élan vital, Britain, C.S. Lewis, conversion, divine, England, Henri Bergson, holistic healing, honor, human desire, Materialism, New Age, occult, Occultism, Oscar Wilde, Oxford University, philosophy, prayer, prophetic, reality, sex, Spinoza, SUNY, Surprised By Joy, theism, theosophy, World War I, yoga
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“Faith”
“Faith” What is the place of faith in a woman’s life or a man’s? In what should we have faith and when is it best to withhold it? As a small child, it’s been reported that I was standing on … Continue reading
Posted in Academe, Culture, Desire, Faith, Femininity, history of ideas, life and death struggle, Philosophy, Political, Psychology, relationships, The Examined Life
Tagged Ammon Hennacy, blind-faith, Catholic Worker, Catholic Worker Movement, Catholicism, Cherokee, Dorothy Day, Faith, French, Ghandi, God, Isle St. Louis, Jew, Jewish, Lower Manhattan, Midstream Magazine, North Carolina, pacifism, pacifist, pogrom, Quaker, reservation, Russia, unseen, W. H. Auden
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“Success”
“Success” When I was about twenty-five, I said to a friend, “I thought, when I’d be twenty- five, I’d be at least wonderful. But I’m not.” What did I mean by “at least wonderful”? I think it meant, at home … Continue reading
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Tagged Al-Quds University, Art, belle of the ball, Brandeis, Brandeis University, career, classical antiquity, Corporate ladder, failure and success, female philosopher, female professor, Fine art, friendship, Greek philosophy, Jerusalem, Jews, Kabbalah, Leo Bronstein, life goals, Marriage, paideia, philosophy, popularity, prophecy, Romance, Sari Nusseibeh, spirituality, Success, true love, twenty-five year old woman, wallflower, working woman, wunderkind
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“Finding Mr. Right”
“Finding Mr. Right” To marry off Abigail was never a cinch. My undergraduate years passed in a women’s college to which I commuted from a home that interested me more than my professors did, much less the callow young male … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Desire, Erotic Life, Femininity, Feminism, Gender Balance, history of ideas, Masculinity, Philosophy, Political, Psychology, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Woman
Tagged American woman, Chronicle of Higher Education, female friendship, Feminism, Feminity, Finding Mr. Right, Gender, gender roles, Long-distance calling, love, Marriage, Masculinity, Mr. Right, New York City, Paris, philosophy, relationships, Romance, Sydney, Western Wall
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