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Lionel and Henry: In Fact and Fiction
There is just one case I know of where two brilliant young writers published dueling short stories about each other, in which each is the protagonist and his best friend the antagonist. Who were the writers who would do such … Continue reading →
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Tagged anti-communist, Authenticity, avoiding political extremes, betraying friendship; literary reputation, careerism, Columbia University’s class of 1925, communist activist, denying one’s identity, dueling short stories, emotional wholeness, erasing one's Jewish identity, Eric Voegelin Society, female malice, fulfilling youthful promise, imaginary authenticity, imaginary clandestine affair, Jewish identity, KGB files, life in disguise, Lionel Trilling, literary rivalry, lost innocence, lost youth, male friends, masked life, novel of ideas, political conversion, projecting one’s repressed identity, rabbinical student, religious conversion, roman a clef, seminary student, settling scores in fiction, social rank, Soviet agent, suppressed nostalgia, the just mean, the Left and the Right, the male mind, trial of the century; communist party, Whitttaker Chambers; Alger Hiss, womanly dignity, young writers
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“Being Torn Apart–as a Method”
Being Torn Apart — as a Method Rene Descartes, the reputed “founder of modern philosophy,” held that the most important thing in life and thought – the thing without which nothing of significance can happen – is to have a … Continue reading →
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Tagged a discourse on method, Apollo, Athena, c.v.'s, clear and distinct ideas, death of Socrates, foundationalism, Franz Hals, Galileo, Leo Strauss, logos of the cosmos, masked life, modern philosophy, Mt. Olympus, mythology, persecution, Persecution and The Art of Writing, Plato, politicians of ideas, public opinion, rationalism, role playing, search for truth, secretiveness, self evidence, Socrates, Socratic method, The Academy, the philosophic life, the philosophic profession, the Sorbonne, women in philosophy, world views
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