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Red Letter Day

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Abigail

Red Letter Day In recent columns, I’ve alluded to reversals of fortune, a succession of them, coming in the form of rejection letters. Two came from senior editors who turned down an article, controversial and breaking new ground, which was … Continue reading →

Posted in Absurdism, Academe, Action, Afterlife, Alienation, American Politics, Anthropology, Art, Art of Living, Atheism, Autonomy, beauty, books, bureaucracy, Chivalry, Cities, Class, conformism, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Courage, Courtship, cults, Cultural Politics, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Eternity, Existentialism, exploitation, Faith, Fashion, Femininity, Feminism, Freedom, Friendship, Gender Balance, glitterati, Health, hegemony, hidden God, hierarchy, history of ideas, Ideality, Identity, Ideology, Idolatry, Immortality, Institutional Power, Literature, Love, Masculinity, master, Memoir, memory, Messianic Age, Mind Control, Modernism, Moral action, Moral evaluation, Moral psychology, novels, Ontology, Oppression, Past and Future, Philosophy, Political, politics of ideas, post modernism, Power, presence, Psychology, public facade, Public Intellectual, Race, radicalism, Reading, Reductionism, relationships, Roles, Romance, secular, Seduction, self-deception, Sex Appeal, Sexuality, social climbing, social construction, Social Conventions, social ranking, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, Spirituality, status, status of women, Suffering, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, the profane, the sacred, Theology, Time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Utopia, victims, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist | Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", anti-humanism, anti-semitism, at home in the world, Augustine’s Confessions, big shots, book people, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, controversial essays, exhausting one's options, experiment with truth, feeling lighter, gender asymmetry, identity politics, illustrated books, influencers, influential people, internalizing rejection, literary agent, literary prizes, lungeing the horse, magazine editors, Marxism, men and women, millenarianism, natural riding, newsworthy article, Nobel Prize, novelistic non-fiction, opinion shapers, popularity, race relations, Red letter day, rejection letters, respect from horses, respecting horses, reversals of fortune, Rousseau’s Confessions, self-publishing advantages, self-worth, sexual asymmetry, sexual equality, shedding light, stunned silence, trade press, true story, university press, unpublished book, weight of the world, words and images, world views, worldly considerations | Leave a comment

Coping With Men

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Abigail

Coping With Men Last night, Jerry and I were watching a netflick about Lillie Langtry, the celebrated Edwardian beauty. We are at the point in the story where she is beginning to be noticed by fashionable painters of the day … Continue reading →

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