Tag Archives: Marcel Proust
“The Completed ‘Confessions of a Young Philosopher'”
“The Completed ‘Confessions of a Young Philosopher’” Last Sunday, I finished a life work. I mean, finished it to my satisfaction. It’s done – as I always hoped it could be. Some years back, I had published an earlier version … Continue reading
Posted in absurdism, academe, action, alienation, American politics, anthropology, art, art of living, atheism, autonomy, beauty, childhood, Christianity, class, conformism, contemplation, contradictions, cool, courage, cults, cultural politics, culture, desire, dialectic, erotic life, eternity, ethics, evil, existentialism, faith, fashion, femininity, feminism, films, freedom, friendship, gender balance, glitterati, Gnosticism, health, Hegel, hegemony, heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, history, history of ideas, id, idealism, ideality, identity, idolatry, immorality, institutional power, Jews, Judaism, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, literature, love, male power, masculinity, master, memoir, memory, Messianic Age, mind control, modernism, mortality, motherhood, mysticism, nineteenth-century, non-violence, oppression, pacifism, past and future, peace, philosophy, political, political movements, politics, power, propaganda, psychology, public facade, public intellectual, race, relationships, roles, romance, romantic love, seduction, self-deception, sex appeal, sexuality, slave, social climbing, social construction, social conventions, social ranking, sociobiology, 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, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Utopia, victimhood, victims, violence, war, work, writing, Zeitgeist
Tagged agents, Augustine’s Confessions, Australian materialists, Bildungsroman, celebrity memoirs, coming-of-age novels, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, critical notice, critics, editors, life work, lost innocence, Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, marketing, marketing and writing, marketing books, movie stars, narrative nonfiction, novels, plotlines, publishing, rejections, Rousseau’s Confessions, spiritual journey, stolen innocence, teaching tools, tell-all books, the world’s opinion, tough-minded philosophers, validation, vindication, writer as politician, writers, writers' frustration, writing as teaching
2 Comments
“Women Friends”
“Women Friends” The Ariadne’s Thread that connects one episode of one’s life to the next is provided by our women friends – the ones to whom our stories can be told. I have a high school friend (let us call … Continue reading
Posted in academe, art, culture, femininity, feminism, friendship, gender balance, life and death struggle, literature, philosophy, psychology, relationships, social conventions, the examined life, the problematic of woman
Tagged "Three Coins in the Fountain", 1950's, Ariadne's Thread, beauty, bitterness, D.H. Lawrence, diaphram, Ernest Hemingway, female relationships, Feminism, ideology, Italians, jeune fille en fleure, literary club, Marcel Proust, Mary McCarthy, mental breakdown, Mr. Right, public feminists, Samuel Butler, The Group, The Left, virginity, women friends, wunderkind, youth, zen
3 Comments
“Fun”
“Fun” Whenever I really had fun, I hadn’t sought it and never called it that. What times am I thinking of? There was the time a select group of us young colleagues, who were fired for resisting the powers that … Continue reading
Posted in academe, culture, friendship, literature, philosophy, political, psychology, relationships, social conventions
Tagged academe, adolescence, artifice, awkward, childhood, colleagues, constraint, contrived, freedom, friendship, fun, Greek myth, high-school, horses, Les Halles, Marcel Proust, Paris, philosophy, Procrustes
Leave a comment
