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“The Delicacy of Women”

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Abigail

The Delicacy of Women There is a scene in Sartre’s magnum opus, Being and Nothingness, the book by which he influenced several generations of young people who wanted to be numbered among the existentialists. A man and a woman are … Continue reading →

Posted in Academe, Action, Alienation, Art, Autonomy, Chivalry, Contradictions, Cool, Courtship, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Ethics, Evil, Faith, Fashion, Femininity, Feminism, Freedom, Friendship, Gender Balance, Guilt and Innocence, Health, history of ideas, Identity, Ideology, Idolatry, Institutional Power, Jews, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Literature, Love, Male Power, Masculinity, master, Memoir, motherhood, Philosophy, Poetry, Political, Political Movements, Power, Psychology, Reductionism, relationships, Roles, Seduction, Sex Appeal, Sexuality, Social Conventions, Sociobiology, Spirituality, Suffering, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, Time, Violence, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist | Tagged Arjuna, bad faith, Being and Nothingness, bourgeois morality, bridegroom, carnal desire, co-ed bathrooms, co-ed dorms, college drinking, consentual sex, coyness, existentialists, flirtation, fraternities, hero, hook-up culture, inauthenticity, India, inhibitions, Ivy League, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jewish orthodoxy, Krishna, liberal education, Mahabharata, mauvaise foi, men and women, modesty, monogamy, old wives tales, open marriage, Paris cafes, philosophical argument, polyamory, rape on campus, seduction, sexual consent, Sexuality, shyness, Simone de Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, sincerity and authenticity, social construction, tv serials, wedding night, widows, Yale University, younger women and older women | Leave a comment

“Far Memory”

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Abigail

“Far Memory” Let’s suppose for a moment that we live many lives, as different personalities in a variety of circumstances. The TV documentaries on reincarnation, and the past life regressions available online, allow us to meet individuals who seem to … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Faith, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Conventions, The Examined Life | Tagged African, afterlife, aloneness, dying, evidence, fetish, fluidity of identity, Hindu, human sacrifice, hypnosis, imagination, India, Israel, Leo Bronstein, magic, Mayan, memory, past life regressions, personal identity, popular culture, reincarnation, rites, spirituality, Western culture, witch doctor | Leave a comment

“Clothes”

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Abigail

“Clothes” Clothes are a much bigger subject than is generally supposed. I often say, “It doesn’t matter what happens, so long as you’re dressed for it.” I suspect more than a few women would agree with me. The work of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Cool, Culture, Fashion, Femininity, Philosophy, Political, Social Conventions, The Problematic of Woman | Tagged Adam, book of Genesis, Chanel, clothes, Clothing, Evil, fashion, God, good and evil, holy man, India, Indian Holy Man, naked, original sin, saints, social constraints, Vedic tradition, Video Games | 1 Comment

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