Monthly Archives: August 2018
Persecution and the Art of Writing
Persecution and the Art of Writing That’s the catchy title of a book published in the 1950’s by a man named Leo Strauss – initially derided, later enormously influential. Outside philosophy and political theory, Strauss’s name is not generally … Continue reading →
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Tagged candor, candor in courtship, conspiracy theory, coquetry, courtship, dialectic, diplomacy, emigre philosophers, emigres, esotericism, Eugenics, exoteric writing, gauging the audience, hidden doctrine, hidden views, history of ideas, integrity, intellectual integrity, intellectuals, Leo Strauss’s Persecution and the Art of Writing, oral teaching, Palestinian student, people pleasing, philosophic training, philosophy, Plato's Phaedrus, Plato's Republic, political realism, political science, political theory, public intellectuals, rhetoric, saying the right thing, secret doctrine, social blunders, social intelligence, speech and silence, state managed reproduction, straight shooting, tact, the ideal state, The Woman Question, Thought Crimes, trial and error, truth-seekers, women in philosophy, writing in code
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Walking Into The Fire: The Politically Incorrect Phyllis Chesler
Walking Into The Fire: The Politically Incorrect Phyllis Chesler Do men and women now treat each other better than they once did? The feminist revolution peeled off the conventions that used to govern relations between the sexes. Yet man-woman relations seem … Continue reading →
Nudnikerie: My Album of Antisemites
Nudnikerie: My Album of Antisemites Nudnik: “A nudnik is not just a nuisance; to merit the status of nudnik, a nuisance must be the most persistent, talkative, obnoxious, indomitable, and indefatigable nag.” The Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten. As … Continue reading →
Posted in absurdism, action, alienation, American politics, art of living, atheism, autonomy, Biblical God, chivalry, Christianity, cities, conformism, contemplation, contradictions, cool, courage, cults, cultural politics, culture, desire, dialectic, erotic life, eternity, ethics, evil, existentialism, exploitation, faith, fashion, femininity, feminism, freedom, friendship, gender balance, guilt and innocence, health, hegemony, heroes, hidden God, history, history of ideas, idealism, ideality, identity, ideology, idolatry, immorality, institutional power, Jews, law, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, love, martyrdom, master/slave relation, memoir, memory, Messianic Age, mind control, modernism, moral action, moral evaluation, moral psychology, non-violence, oppression, pacifism, past and future, peace, philosophy, political, political movements, politics, politics of ideas, postmodernism, power, propaganda, psychology, public facade, public intellectual, race, radicalism, reductionism, relationships, religion, roles, secular, seduction, self-deception, social climbing, social construction, social conventions, social ranking, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, spirituality, status, status of women, suffering, terror, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, the profane, the sacred, theism, theology, time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Utopia, victimhood, victims, violence, war, work, writing, Zeitgeist
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", ad hominem attack, bigotry, Christian friends, collegiality violated, dangerous pessimism, dark corners, dark memory, double standard, European Femininity, European women, evasion, G.I. Bride, German complicity, good guys, groupthink, Hitler’s reading list, Hitler’s sport events, in the wrong job, insulting speech, Jerry L. Martin's "God: an Autobiography as Told to a Philosopher", Jewish neighbors, Jewish opinion, loaded questions, memory, naturalistic worldview, outdoor cafes, outdoor prayer, peaceniks, personal stories, picking a quarrel, prayer as last resort, religious experience, religious turn, requirements of priesthood, self-deception, self-righteousness, Shoah, talking to God, the Holocaust, the human soul, the Other, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, war-time trauma, womanly arts, wrong life path, wrong vocation
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Homage to Milbridge
Homage to Milbridge Last week, Jerry and I spent two whole days in Milbridge, Maine, bookended by travel days of which (the return trip) the less said the better. About the state of Maine, I smile when, looking down, I … Continue reading →
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Tagged "The Consolations of Philosophy: Hobbes's Secret; Spinoza's Way" by Henry M. Rosenthal; ed. Abigail L. Rosenthal, "You Can't Go Home Again", Abigail's Adages, Alentejo Coast, babes in the woods, Bangor Airport, barrel racing, canoeing, cantering, city slickers, coming home, damaging stories, death of parents, defamation, defamation disbelieved, divorce, Downeast, Ellsworth Maine, familiar landscapes, first marriage, fishing village, fun days, half acre, homecoming, imaginary feeling, job fight, landscapes, last illness, local ghosts, local sage, Maine, Maine Coast Memorial Hospital, Milbridge Day, Milbridge Maine, more fish in the sea, Narraguagus Bay, New York apartment, orphaned, outdoor games, parental presence, philosophic manuscript, picnics, Portugal, posthumous manuscript, posthumous publication, precognition, proofs of ownership, real feeling, reviews, right-of-way, rodeo, rural adventures, rural property, sailing, saleable property, selling the house, sense of direction, shore strip, slander, southern mansion, state fair, telling the whole town, town events, travel days, trials of life, triumphs of life, unsaleable property, unseen presences, victorious fights
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