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The Stroke of Lightning
One time I asked the Swiss-French philosopher Jeanne Hersch what she thought the French model for romantic love was. Her response was instant: C’est Tristan. That twelfth-century tale, which exists in many versions, goes like this: Tristan, a Cornish knight, … Continue reading →
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Tagged academic attitudes, blinded by love, bracketing personal involvement, bracketing the natural attitude, cynicism as pretense, dance of the lovers, Dante Alighieri, Dante and Beatrice, Dante's romantic love, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Edmund Husserl, encoded Gnostic stories, explaining away romance, falling in love, falling in love unawares, feminism as anti-romantic, fitting romantic love into categories, French choreography of romance, French culture and the coup de foudre, French model of romantic love, gender imbalance, good life as a balance between extremes, honoring womanly hopes, independent woman, insincere hopelessness, Jeanne Hersch, lawbreaking for the sake of a better world, le coup de foudre, libertine Gnosticism, lovers in Paris, medieval romance, modern woman, nihilism as pretense, nonviolent resistance, noticing the romantic spark, objective self-examination, objective self-knowledge, ontology of romantic love, outliving one's love, outliving romantic love, personal histories, Phenomenology, pretended maturity, professional woman, reductive explanations for romantic love, resistance and non-resistance, romance and self protection, romance as novelistic, romance tales as encoded Gnostic tracts, romantic approach of French vs. American women, Romantic Love, romantic love and psychology, romantic love and the experts, romantic love and theoretical explanations, romantic love as a law onto itself, romantic love as sanity in depth, romantic love as temporary, romantic love treated as abnormal, romantic love treated as madness, romantic love vs. seduction, saving the liberal arts, studying romance, taking romantic love seriously, the strategy of being a woman, the stroke of lightning, the Tristan template, the world has no room for romance, Tristan and Iseult, true love, trusting romantic love, Upper East Side, well-balanced life, woman philosopher
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From the Horse’s Mouth
My latest ride at what I shall call The Metaphysical Stables has proved particularly gratifying. This time Legacy, the mid-sized, hairy dog, did not sit on my lap while I waited for Dusty to be saddled and bridled. One front … Continue reading →
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Tagged academic revolutionary, aesthetics of anti-semitism, ambivalence toward Jews in literature, American anti-semites, American Zionists, animal communication, animal interpreter, anti-semitism as spiritual refusal, armchair radicalism, cafe marxism, cafe revolutionary, Camelot the musical, can’t fool your dog, coming to terms with parents, curing anti-semitism, daughter of a genius, dog as a good judge of character, double life, emotional intelligence in animals, escaping a parent’s shadow, ethical pretense, female as victim, finding the Right One, first love, grand passion, Henry M. Rosenthal, his and her perspectives, horse sense, horse sense vs psychotherapy, Jewish fathers and daughters in literature, Jews in English literature, knights and their ladies, le coup de foudre, living a contradiction, living in a parent’s shadow, love at first sight, men’s romantic suffering, outward success inward distress, Parisian intellectuals, Parisian Men of the Left, pretense of concern for the oppressed, professional success vs personal failure, public facade vs private suffering, recognizing a man of God, recovering from first love, redeeming femininity, refusal of the divine, refusal of the God of history, revisiting memories, romantic disappointment, romantic disillusionment, Romantic memory, seduced and abandoned, seductive idealization, seductive ploys, self judgment, spiritual ambivalence toward the Jews, spiritual refusal, talking one way living another, The 36 righteous, the eternal feminine, the horse’s mouth, the man’s viewpoint, the metaphysical stables, the stroke of lightning, theological insight, Thomas Altizer, time’s winged chariot, Tristan and Iseult, turning around of the soul, unintegrated life, unresolved romance, Walter Russell Mead’s The Ark of a Covenant: The United States Israel and the Fate of the Jewish People, womanly understanding, working through memories, worldly honors
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Men on the Timeline
Men on the Timeline The other night I was at the Franco-Tunisian café where I go to get some of my writing done. A sizeable group had taken one side of the section where I found a round table. They … Continue reading →
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