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What Is Truth?
The question, famously put to Jesus by Pontius Pilate, was prompted by Jesus’ self-report that he had come to bear witness to the truth. Without capitalizing “Truth,” so that it acquires other-worldly sound-and-light effects – isn’t bearing witness to the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal’s A Good Look at Evil, acculturation and maturation, aesthetic theory, bearing witness, beyond good and evil, celebration of the novel, characters in novels, children’s adaptation to grownups, continental know-it-all, cultural history, culture and meaning, culture as influence on purpose, despair as affectation, destroying the culture, discerning life purpose, discerning one’s purpose, evil defined, evildoers and innocent purposes, evildoers attacking ordinary purpose, fashionable despair, feminine self-respect, fiction and nonfiction, good and evil, Guido Mazzoni’s Theory of the Novel, initial purposes, intellectual influence, Jesus, ladies don’t believe this creep, libertine Gnosticism, life as a journey, life as a pilgrimage, life as a quest, literary criticism, literary history, mapping and purpose, moral anomie, moral flatness, mutual influence in society, nineteenth-century novels, novelistic life stories, novels and real-life, Pontius Pilate, preferred purposes, pretense of amorality, revising purposes, seducer’s line, seducing the reader, self-definition, self-discovery, self-education, self-respect, stories true and false, story as putting purpose to the test, storylines, subjectivity mischaracterized, technique of seduction, testing purposes, the nature of evil, the novel, trials and errors, true stories, truth and falsehood, truth and postmodernism, truth vs fiction, undermining the culture, What is truth?, what you see is what you get
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Freud and Fraudulence
Freud and Fraudulence The New York Review of Books is the semi-monthly repository of tasteful opinion within the boundaries of what it is intellectually correct to think. The books under review are just the launching place for essays that are … Continue reading →
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Tagged "New York Review of Books", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Getting Past Marx and Freud", abused children, Adolf Grunbaum, Anglophone philosophers, architect of the Taj Mahal, Authenticity, B. A. Farrell, Bernard Williams, bohemians, civilization and repression, co-ed dorms, Continental philosophers, creative people, cultural theory of everything, curing repression by repressing dissent, drugs and creativity, Elisabeth Roudinesco's "Freud: In His Time and Ours", feminine self-respect, feminine virtues, filial piety, Frederick Crews' "Freud: What Left?", Freud and manipulation, Freud and seduction, Freud and street insults, Freud and the unconscious, Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud's cocaine use, Freud's fictions, Freud's Moses and Monotheism, Freud's patients, Freud's The Future of an Illusion, Freud's theoretical claims, Freud's therapeutic claims, Freud’s Totem and Taboo, Freudian cure, Freudian definition of women, Freudian diagnosis, genius and neurosis, Greek lyric poets, Greek tragedy, holistic explanations, holistic thought world, imitative courtship styles, incestuous desires, intellectually correct, Lionel Trilling, Marcus Aurelius, Michelangelo, modesty, Montaigne, nineteenth-century novelists, Oedipus complex, ostracism, parent-child bond, Patrick Swales, penis envy, Plato, Plotinus, politically correct, psychic depths, psychoanalysis, received views, Rembrandt, repressed desires, Roger P. Greenberg, Ronsard, second-hand scripts, self-redemption, sexual explanation, Seymour Fisher, Shakespeare, shunning, Sigmund Freud, state of the art, the beast within, The Emperor Has No Clothes, the next big thing, the psalmists, unromantic advances, Vermeer
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