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Betrayal

Posted on November 21, 2017 by Abigail

Betrayal Jerry and I have been attending the American Academy of Religion (AAR) meetings in Boston this weekend. That’s the venue at which Jerry continues his guiding activities in the subfield of “Theology Without Walls,” which he introduced at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Absolute Freedom and Terror, absurdism, academe, action, alienation, American politics, anthropology, art, art of living, atheism, autonomy, beauty, Bible, Biblical God, bureaucracy, Christianity, cities, class, conformism, contemplation, contradictions, cool, courage, courtship, cults, cultural politics, culture, desire, dialectic, erotic life, eternity, ethics, evil, existentialism, exploitation, faith, fashion, femininity, feminism, freedom, friendship, gender balance, glitterati, Gnosticism, guilt and innocence, health, Hegel, hegemony, heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, history, history of ideas, id, idealism, ideality, identity, ideology, idolatry, immorality, immortality, institutional power, Jews, journalism, Judaism, law, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, literature, love, male power, martyrdom, masculinity, memoir, memory, Messianic Age, mind control, modernism, moral action, moral evaluation, moral psychology, mysticism, non-violence, ontology, oppression, pacifism, past and future, peace, philosophy, poetry, political, political movements, politics, politics of ideas, postmodernism, power, presence, promissory notes, propaganda, psychology, public facade, public intellectual, race, radicalism, reductionism, relationships, religion, roles, scientism, secular, seduction, self-deception, sex appeal, sexuality, social climbing, social construction, social conventions, social ranking, sociobiology, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, spirituality, status, status of women, suffering, terror, terrorism, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, the profane, the sacred, theism, theology, time, twenty-first century, Utopia, victimhood, victims, violence, war, work, writing, Zeitgeist | Tagged AAR, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", academic conferences, academic panels, American Academy of Religion, bad news, betrayal, betraying one's origins, Boston, Boston conventions, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, cultural absolutes, cultural appropriation, cultural borrowing, culture as the matrix, discomforts of flying, epiphany, expanding boundaries, expanding identity, globalism, God's character, hotel inconveniences, human experience, hybrid cultures, infidelity, inspiration, judgment calls, lost suitcase, loyalty to origins, minor disasters, multi-culturalism, personal choice and culture, personal integrity, philosophers, philosophy, politics of ideas, politics of religion, power relations, religious identity, risks to identity, risky choices, selling out, spiritual experience, the Divine dimension, the language of power, theologians, theological remedies, theology, Theology Without Walls, tradition, trial and error, TWW, TWW project, war by other means, what's at stake, whoring after strange gods | 2 Comments

“Cynicism”

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Abigail

“Cynicism” The other day a young woman I know, an artist and philosopher who picks up a dollar working at the cafe I frequent, said to me that some of the people she meets act so deplorably that she’s getting … Continue reading →

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“The Comparative Lightness of Being”

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Abigail

“The Comparative Lightness of Being” Except for the dentistry, this old world seems to be going from bad to worse. It’s been downhill for decades. Neighborhoods going to hell. Small businesses and specialty shops closing. Anti-Semitism at a toxic high. … Continue reading →

Posted in culture, history of ideas, ideology, nineteenth-century, ontology, philosophy, political, psychology, relationships, social conventions, spirituality, the examined life | Tagged "Candid Camera", "far away places with strange sounding names", "Punked", 1950's, anthropology, anti-semitism, community, cultural memory loss, culture critics, daguerreotypes, declinism, dentristy, enemies, extremism, fanatics, fast food joints, foreign, globalism, neighborhood blight, openness, over-development, post modernism, preservation, progress, relativism, showmanship, small businesses | 4 Comments

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