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Being Oneself
Normally, by the time I sit down to write this column, the topic has clearly presented itself. Today is no different, except that what wants to be written about here and now are two topics – and they are … Continue reading →
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Tagged 19th century decadent, a self-corrective life, archaeology of self-knowledge, asking if beliefs are true, “The Hasidic Feminist” by Chava Green, Being oneself, campus Chabad, Chabad and women, collapse of French morale, converting to Hasidism, counting as Jewish, crisis of meaning, decadence and loss of desire, despair masking truth, digging under despair, discovering the basics of life, Dr. Chava Green, erotic ennui, experience and belief revisions, experimenting with Hasidism, fashionable absurdism, fashionable French decadence, fashionable Frenchman, finding a life system that fits, finding meaning in real life, finding meaning in real time, French contemporary novel, French culture and Islamicization, French Jews, French nihilism, gourmandise, Hasidism and women, Hasidism and women’s dress, Hasidism and women’s fashion, Hasidism and women’s fulfillment, how civilizations fall, human beings without beliefs, ideal man/woman relations, intellectual with nothing to live for, interdependence of beliefs and desire, Islamist takeover, Islamists in French politics, Jews leaving France, Joris-Karl Huysmans, living at second hand, living from one’s own center, looking for a life-system, loss of desire, loss of motivation, metaphysical meaning of womanhood, metaphysics of men and women, novel of decadence, pleasure no longer motivating, professor at the University of Paris, relation of belief and desire, search for meaning, secularism and orthodoxy, seeking authentic desires, seeking belief system that fits, Submission by Michel Houellebecq, the real person vs the persona, the zeitgeist in a French novel, transcendence within groundedness, women in the Messianic Age, women’s emotional fulfillment, women’s emotional intellectual and romantic fulfillment, women’s fulfillment, women’s intellectual fulfillment, women’s romantic fulfillment, women’s vital role, Yeats’ The Second Coming
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Getting a Grip
Lately, I’ve been in a funny sort of crisis: the crisis when nothing is going wrong — and that’s what’s wrong! It’s as if the distance between my present place and its boundaries is equidistant on every side. Nothing inclines me to … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", alone in a crowd, anguish, anti-semitism, Authenticity, author and critics, bad art, book as its own last word, California, changing what you can, choreographing a life, deciphering anguish, directionlessness, divine assignments and handicaps, divine clues, explaining one's book, fashionable despair, feeling disconnected, feeling rootless, feeling ungrounded, futility, Heidegger's uncanny, honest prayer, learning from horses, life seeming pointless, living with a handicap, loss of direction, loss of grip, loss of motivation, loss of purpose, manipulativeness, Martin Heidegger, mediation methods, meditation insights, mental standstill, messages from nature, neuropathy, neuropathy treatments, nobody understands me, overcontrolling, philosophy of human existence, psychological crisis, quieting the mind, styles of life, sympathizing with one's body, taking the body seriously, the future as predictable, the future as surprising, the future as unpredictable, the weight of the world, unheimlich, unwarranted despair, unwelcome freedom, what's wrong is that nothing is wrong, worry about the world
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