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Tag Archives: 9/11
September 11, A Week Later
This post, written the week after September 11, 2011, is dedicated to Frank De Martini and Pablo Ortiz. Starting at the 88th floor on the North Tower, they went from floor to floor calling out to people who crouched in … Continue reading
Posted in "Absolute Freedom and Terror", Absurdism, Academe, Action, Afterlife, Alienation, Art, Cities, Contradictions, Cool, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Ethics, Evil, Faith, Freedom, Friendship, Guilt and Innocence, Health, Heroes, History, history of ideas, Ideality, Ideology, Idolatry, Institutional Power, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Literature, Love, Memoir, non-violence, Peace, Political, Political Movements, Power, Psychology, relationships, Religion, Roles, Spirituality, Suffering, Terror, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, Theism, Time, twentieth century, Violence, War, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist
Tagged 9/11, art protection, attack, Byzantine crucifix, city walkers, cops, crisis, crisis center, cultural crisis, defining event, emergency vehicles, Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, Faith, fear, fearfulness, FEMA, fire station, first responders, God Bless America, gratitude, Ground Zero, heroes, immanence, Jihad, Job, Kali, Lower Manhattan, Metropolitan Museum, National Guard, New York City, New York Subway, New Yorkers, realism, sorrow, spirit, sprit of the City, street smarts, terrorism, Todd Stone, transcendence, TV history, urban neighborhood, voyeurism, walking intelligently, Wall Street, war zone
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September 11, A Week Later –
This post, written the week after September 11, 2011, is dedicated to Frank De Martini and Pablo Ortiz. Starting at the 88th floor on the North Tower, they went from floor to floor calling out to people who crouched in … Continue reading
Posted in "Absolute Freedom and Terror", Absurdism, Action, Alienation, Art, Cities, Contradictions, Cool, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Ethics, Evil, Faith, Freedom, Friendship, Guilt and Innocence, Health, Heroes, History, history of ideas, Identity, Ideology, Idolatry, Institutional Power, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Literature, Love, Memoir, non-violence, Peace, Political, Political Movements, Power, Psychology, relationships, Religion, Roles, Spirituality, Suffering, Terror, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, Theism, Time, twenty-first century, Violence, War, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist
Tagged 9/11, art protection, attack, Byzantine crucifix, city walkers, cops, crisis, crisis center, cultural crisis, defining event, emergency vehicles, Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, Faith, fear, fearfulness, FEMA, fire station, first responders, God Bless America, gratitude, Ground Zero, heroes, immanence, Jihad, Job, Kali, Lower Manhattan, Metropolitan Museum, National Guard, New York City, New York Subway, New Yorkers, realism, sorrow, spirit, sprit of the City, street smarts, terrorism, Todd Stone, transcendence, TV history, urban neighborhood, voyeurism, walking intelligently, Wall Street, war zone
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“Hanging Fire”
“Hanging Fire” I seem to be at a rather gratifying plateau. “Confessions of a Young Philosopher” is now edited almost to completion. It may take another few weeks but the major hurdles have been cleared. It is, if I … Continue reading
Posted in Academe, Action, Alienation, Art, Autonomy, Cities, Class, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Eternity, Ethics, Evil, Existentialism, Faith, Fashion, Freedom, Friendship, Guilt and Innocence, History, history of ideas, Identity, Ideology, Institutional Power, Jews, life and death struggle, Literature, Love, Male Power, Masculinity, Memoir, Modernism, Philosophy, Political, Political Movements, Power, Psychology, Reductionism, relationships, Roles, Seduction, Social Conventions, Sociobiology, Spirituality, Suffering, Terror, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, Theism, Time, twentieth century, Violence, War, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist
Tagged "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", "Conversations with My Father", "The Consolations of Philosophy: Hobbes's Secret; Spinoza's Way" by Henry M. Rosenthal; ed. Abigail L. Rosenthal, 9/11, American culture, archives, biography, blessings, book projects, cracking the code, editing, enigma, experience of God, fathers and daughters, genius, Henry M. Rosenthal, High School of Music and Art, historical memoir, Hobbes, Holocaust rescue, intellectual friendships, Islamism, Jews, journals, letters, liberal intellectuals, Lionel Trilling, literary critic, male friendship, New York, New York intellectuals, Partisan Review, personal correspondence, personal God, philosophy, posthumous conversations, posthumous publication, public intellectuals, rationalism, seventeenth century rationalists, Spinoza, Terror, terrorism, theism, theistic experience, victims, Wars of Religion, writing
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“Places”
“Places” “There are no places anymore.” This was the complaint we two hitchhikers, Anna and me, heard from an American traveler at a roadside stop. Our informant — who was saying this to his two compatriots many decades back — … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Alienation, Art, Cities, Class, Cool, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Fashion, Freedom, History, history of ideas, Identity, Institutional Power, Literature, Love, Memoir, nineteenth-century, Psychology, relationships, Roles, Social Conventions, Suffering, The Examined Life, Time, twentieth century, War, Writing, Zeitgeist
Tagged "Portrait of Jenny", "The World of Yesterday", 9/11, artists and writers, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bateau Mouche, beats, Big Apple, bohemians, book burning, cafes, Cool, cosmopolitan, country music, earth, Europe, European cities, German Occupation, Hemingway, hitchhiking, nazis, New York, New York in the nineteen forties, Notre Dame, Paris, Robert Frost, Stefan Zweig, Stephen Vincent Benét, The Great War, the Seine, tourists/tourism, travel, World War I, World War II
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“Coincidence?”
“Coincidence?” I have a particular fondness for deer. After many a summer sojourn in Downeast Maine, I once said to friends, “You know, I’ve never seen a deer here.” That very afternoon, as I was driving home, a doe obligingly … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Faith, Philosophy, Political, The Examined Life
Tagged "the pathetic fallacy", 9/11, chance, coincidence, Hobbes, human purpose, Kierkegaard, magic, New Age, omens, ordeals, Osama bin Laden, Patanjali, portents, precognitive dreams, seduction, signs, Spinoza, the universe, vibes, World Trade Center, yoga sutras
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