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“Believe You Me”
“Believe You Me” In “Treachery and Transcendence,” last week’s column, I wrote about the disappointing “new treatment” for my walking handicap. Despite all, I decided to continue it for another week or two, just to see if it could be … Continue reading →
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“A Philosopher’s and a Woman’s Place”
“A Philosopher’s and a Woman’s Place” I’ve mentioned that a former colleague — alongside whom many a good fight was fought — has decided (to my great surprise) to nominate me to give one of the American Philosophical Association’s John … Continue reading →
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Tagged "nice girls", "pretty girls", "thinking like a man", "thinking like a woman", "ugly girls", 20th century ideologies, 3:00 o'clock in the morning, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Getting Past Marx and Freud" Clio Vol. 15 Number 1, academic journals, academic philosophy, acceptance letter, activism, Ambiguity, ambition, anal sex, anomalies, anti-colonial activism, Arab culture, Authenticity, beauty and fashion, body armor, career women, careers, classical virtues, colleagues, collegiality, communism, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, cosmopolitan night life, counter-examples, dark night of the soul, Department of General Philosophy, Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy, doctoral dissertation, embarrasment, encoded lives, eternal truths, ex-husbands, fallacy of equivocation, family honor, feminine ego, Freudianism, G.W.F. Hegel, historicism, historiography, history and eternal truth, honor killing, hymenoplasty, hypotheses, immodest dress, immolation of women, intellectual freedom, Jehovah's Witnesses, job struggle, John Dewey Lectures, Katherine Zoepf's "Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World", Lebanese women, male ego, masculine thinking, Master's thesis, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, murder, Muslim women, oral sex, originality, partriarchy, peer reviewed journals, philosophy, philosophy journals, piety, primordial fear, problem-solving, professional life, put downs, rape, refereed journals, rejection letter, research, sexual availability, sincerity, surface freedom, Sydney University, Syrian women, talent, The Examined Life, the Other, the philosophic life, the Qur'an, The Woman Question, unauthorized marriage, underground, virginity, Western dress, Western feminists, womanhood, womanliness, women in universities, women's freedom, writer's craft
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“Imperfections”
“Imperfections” I always wanted to grow up to be a great lover, a famous saint or – if it could be arranged – both. There were obstacles, the memory of which still visits me from time to time. For example, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ambiguity, anti-semitism, Bambi, childhood, choices of evils, compensations, concealments, displacements, double messages, fantasy, Felix Salten, Gandhi, gray area, honesty, Jews, Lazarus and The Rich Man, liars, Luke 16:26, Marcel Proust, memory, mental illness, moral education, narrative, New Testament, oath, ouija board, Protestant speech, Protestantism, subjective experience, tale-spinning, the bright red line, the light of truth, the Pale of Settlement, The Shtetl, the strap, truth-tellers, Tsarist regime, victims
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“Ambiguity”
“Ambiguity” If the current era were to gain a label, it might be called “The Age of Ambiguity.” Whether in self-praise or regret, there is wide agreement that nothing is clearly X or not-X. Rather, everything is a bit of … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adin Steinsaltz, Ambiguity, angels, Arbitration, atheist, Being and Nothingness, complexity, contradiction, disambiguate, diversity, Fear and Trembling, French existentialism, G.W.F. Hegel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Kabbalah, leap of faith, muddling through, philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, The Phenomenology of Mind, The Thirteen Petaled Rose, Western films
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