Monthly Archives: September 2014

“Chronology”

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Abigail

“Chronology” From precognitive dreams, where the future is recognizably predicted before it happens, we can infer that time is other than what ordinarily we think it is. From the way philosophers have sometimes talked, mathematicians and physicists too on occasion, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alienation, Culture, Eternity, Guilt and Innocence, History, history of ideas, Legal Responsibility, Literature, Memoir, nineteenth-century, Phenomenology of Mind, Philosophy, Political, Psychology, relationships, Time, Work | Tagged "To His Coy Mistress", accuracy, agression and self-defense, Andrew Marvell, anomie, cause and effect, chronology, Classical, clock time, Copernicus, despair, dimensions, disorientation, Enlightenment, factory workers, George Washington, Hellenistic, history of civilization, injustice, justice, mathematics, memory, metaphysical poetry, Modernity, narrative, Newton, past and future, personal power, philosophy, physics, precognitive dreams, reality, Romanticism, Rome, seduction, Socrates, students, synchronization, Taylorism, temporality, theology, time and eternity, time and place, time zones, trans -continental railroads, world history | Leave a comment

“The Comparative Lightness of Being”

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Abigail

“The Comparative Lightness of Being” Except for the dentistry, this old world seems to be going from bad to worse. It’s been downhill for decades. Neighborhoods going to hell. Small businesses and specialty shops closing. Anti-Semitism at a toxic high. … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, history of ideas, Ideology, nineteenth-century, Ontology, Philosophy, Political, Psychology, relationships, Social Conventions, Spirituality, The Examined Life | Tagged "Candid Camera", "far away places with strange sounding names", "Punked", 1950's, anthropology, anti-semitism, community, cultural memory loss, culture critics, daguerreotypes, declinism, dentristy, enemies, extremism, fanatics, fast food joints, foreign, globalism, neighborhood blight, openness, over-development, post modernism, preservation, progress, relativism, showmanship, small businesses | 4 Comments

“Seizing the Narrative”

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Abigail

“Seizing the Narrative” Long ago, I waited in New York City for a promised letter from Paris that never came. My first love, not a good correspondent, nor a good keeper of promises, was a communist. Not a party member, … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Femininity, history of ideas, Ideology, life and death struggle, Male Power, Memoir, Philosophy, Political, Psychology, Race, Sexuality, Social Conventions, The Problematic of Woman | Tagged Abul Ala Mawdudi, Andre Philip, bourgeois, British Pakistanis, communism, Critique de la raison dialectique, Deborah Baker, delusions, Fidelista, humiliation, In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom, Maajid Nawaz, Margaret Marcus, martyrdom, Maryam Jameelah, middle-class milieu, Muslim, narrative, New Left, psyche, psychoanalysis, racism, radical, Radical: My Journey Out of Islamist Extremism, Sartre, sexual self-respect, skinheads, social gauntlets, The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism, theory of history, therapy, utopian, virginity, world history | Leave a comment

“A Woman’s Standing”

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Abigail

“A Woman’s Standing” Up to adolescence, the question of standing as a woman did not arise. You had the friends who wanted to play with you. You could be rated as an athlete or a student or (at the high … Continue reading →

Posted in Academe, Culture, Erotic Life, Femininity, Feminism, Gender Balance, history of ideas, Literature, Philosophy, Political, Psychology, relationships, Sexuality, Social Conventions, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Woman | Tagged couples, Elizabeth Gould Davis' The First Sex, Euripides' Bacchae, false consciousness, Famous feminists, feminist movement, gender roles, hypocrisy, J. J. Bachofen's Mother Right, James Fraser's The Golden Bough, marital status, Mr. Right, Phyllis Chesler's An American Bride in Kabul and Woman's Inhumanity to Woman, Robert Briffault's The Mothers, Robert Graves' The White Goddess, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, unisex, universal truth, wives, women's college, yin and yang | Leave a comment

“Burnout”

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Abigail

“Burnout” I am suffering from burnout. Until the other day, I hadn’t noticed it as a specific complaint. The symptoms? A sense that nothing means anything any more. Every climb of the ant up the anthill will be followed by … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Faith, Friendship, life and death struggle, Memoir, Psychology, relationships, Spirituality, The Examined Life, Work | Tagged alienation, balance, bio-rhythm, bodily deterioration, creation, Creator, deadlines, deconstruction-of-identity, exhaustion, existential angst, friendship, funerals, Genesis, hypochondria, intellectual burnout, Leviticus, meaninglessness, metaphysical despair, over-tiredness, over-worked, Rabbi, rest, sabbath, study group, symptoms, Torah, vacation | 2 Comments

Monthly Archives: September 2014

“Chronology”

“Burnout”

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