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“Christianity, Judaism, and Women”
“Christianity, Judaism, and Women” I don’t know how you feel about this, but I take for granted that a religion represents (among other things) an erotic style. If I were to convert to another religion, I would be changing the … Continue reading
Posted in academe, culture, desire, erotic life, faith, femininity, gender balance, life and death struggle, literature, masculinity, nineteenth-century, philosophy, political, relationships, sexuality, social conventions, the problematic of woman
Tagged Beatrice Portinari, chivalry, Christian idealized woman, Christian woman, Christianity, courtship, Dante, desire, erotic life, eternal feminine, Faust, Goethe, Gretchen, Jewish woman, Judaism, lech lecha, Leo Bronstein, men and women, nature of desire, Rachel at the well, religion, sex, The Covenant, Women
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“Materialism”
“Materialism” Sometimes, when I am feeling particularly out of sorts, I imagine how my day or week would look to me if I were a materialist. That makes me feel better, because I remember that I’m not one. By “materialist” … Continue reading
Posted in academe, culture, desire, erotic life, history of ideas, literature, philosophy, political, psychology, relationships, sexuality, social conventions, the examined life
Tagged 13th century physics, Aristotle, Beatrice, Beatrice Portinari, cognitive science, Dante, Dante Alighieri, death of a parent, Divine Comedy, erotic quick fix, false consciousness, father's death, Florence, George Gilder, heaven, heliocentrism, hell, hook-up culture, identity theory, love, Materialism, May-Day, paradox, physical brain, Ptolemy, purgatory, reductionism, sociology, soul's journey, the soul, Thomas Nagel, Thomas Wolfe
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