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Zora Neale Hurston: American Talent
Zora Neale Hurston: American Talent Lately, I’ve been reading You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston, Edited with an Introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Genevieve West. This is a collection of essays … Continue reading →
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Tagged African-American writers, American contradictions, coerced silence, competition between writers, cultural life systems, cultural wisdom, Declaration of Independence, Genevieve West, groupthink, Henry Louis Gates, literary critics, national healing, posthumous publication, promise and performance, protest novels, race burden, race consciousness, racial guilt, repairing national wrongs, restoring wholeness, self-repair, women writers, writing talent, Zora Neale Hurston, Zora Neale Hurston’s You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
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A Good Look at Evil’s Second Edition
A Good Look at Evil’s Second Edition The author’s advance copy of my expanded second edition of A Good Look at Evil, arrived Friday. The look of it is entirely gorgeous. To have such endorsements, from opinion-shapers of recognized importance … Continue reading →
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Tagged 20th century culture, A. E. Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", Adam Kirsch, advance copy, analytic philosophers, ancient Greeks, arête, Aristotle, at the mercy of appetite, attractive lies, author's aims, authority figures, be the best that you can be, Biblical narrative, blurbs, book cover, book publication, celebrity, champion athlete, climbing the mountain, Columbia class of 1925, common culture, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, cultural ancestors, cultural forebearers, cunning of evil, dialogue, Edgar Allan Poe's "To Helen", elegiac poem, endorsements, evil's reality, excellence, facing facts, fame, father/daughter relationship, feminist activists, filial piety, flawless performance, force of circumstance, fundamentalism, fundamentalist, Gail Godwin, gifted novelist, glory, going wrong, hazards of life, Henry M. Rosenthal, ignorance, inflated egos, inter-ethnic conversation, interdenominational conversation, international conversation, jacket copy, life achievement, life aims, life goals, life of pleasure, literary critics, literary talent, manipulative purposes, missing your moment, misuse of words, moral vision, narrow minds, narrowness, noble aims, nonwestern cultures, Olympic athlete, opinion shapers, pagan culture, peak performance, Phyllis Chesler, pleasure, power of evil, public disfavor, public favor, public intellectuals, pursuit of pleasure, reality checks, revised edition, seizing your moment, snares of pleasure, The Bible, The class genius, the longest conversation, The Olympics, the struggle with evil, the vices, top of one's game, true lies, uncultivated mind, virtue, Western culture, William Lycan, winning the match, winning the race, wrong intentions, x-ray vision
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The Deep and the Shallow
The Deep and the Shallow A medley of book review weeklies and monthlies arrive here in a more or less continuous stream. I look through them, both to get an idea of what’s new – what is getting the attention … Continue reading →
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Tagged avant garde writers, book review journals, book review weekly, calendar time, clock time, cultural fault lines, cutting edge trends, deep, depth, effects of marriage, emotional depth, escapism, established professionals, French dinner, Futurism, German Romantics, getting ahead of the story, getting out of the story, happy endings, in quest of lost time, intellectual depth, Les feuilles mortes, literary critics, literature of the absurd, living in the now, living one’s story, lost identity, lost time, Marriage, meaninglessness, meditation, modern day Buddhists, moral depth, new books, nihilism, nonfiction, nostalgia, opinion shapers, opinions of critics, philosophers, pointlessness, power in the world, praised books, Presentism, recommended books, search for identity, search for meaning, Sehnsucht, self-help gurus, shallow, significance, staying in the story, temporality, the butterfly, the center cannot hold, the flow of time, the specious present, threatened identity, time travel, time-bound life, TV gurus, vanishing instant, wedding anniversary, wounded souls, yearning, young couples
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Men Worth Remembering
Men Worth Remembering Michael Wyschogrod was a theologian, philosopher and doer of quiet deeds of rescue for many, me included. Last Monday night, his colleagues organized a memorial meeting for him at Baruch College of The City University of New … Continue reading →
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