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Economic Life

Posted on November 13, 2018 by Abigail

Economic Life I suppose that people’s political differences turn on their differing solutions to the problem of economic life. What problem would that be? Oh, let’s say the human species has its overall metabolism: its ways of handling the inflow … Continue reading →

Posted in Action, American Politics, Art, Art of Living, books, Cities, Class, Contradictions, Cool, Cultural Politics, Culture, Desire, Erotic Life, Existentialism, exploitation, Freedom, hierarchy, history of ideas, Identity, life and death struggle, nineteenth-century, Past and Future, Philosophy, Political, politics, politics of ideas, Power, Roles, social construction, Social Conventions, social ranking, status, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist | Tagged Absentee owners, Agribusiness, Bachelor’s life, Being oneself, budget balancing, Craftsmen and industrialization, economic theories, Ethnic neighborhoods, Family farms, Farmers and industrial life, High living, Illiteracy and hunger, Leo Bronstein, Living within one’s means, Lubbock Texas, Manhattan neighborhoods, Norman Stone’s Europe Transformed: 1878-1919, output and input, Over-regulation, Philosophic life style, philosophic talent, public education, Railroads and the economy, Rent control, Small farms, small town life, Small towns and modernization, Soren Kierkegaard, Third Avenue El, Turkey Texas, Upper East Side, Urban life, Volunteerism | 4 Comments

“You CAN Go Home Again”

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Abigail

“You Can Go Home Again” This week we drove the two hours from Bangor, Maine to the little town on the Narraguagus Bay that I shall call – to shelter its hiddenness – the Town of Downeast. The reason I … Continue reading →

Posted in Action, Afterlife, Alienation, Anthropology, Art, Art of Living, beauty, Childhood, Contemplation, Culture, Desire, Eternity, Ethics, Faith, Femininity, Freedom, Friendship, Health, Heroes, history of ideas, Ideality, Identity, Immortality, Literature, Love, Masculinity, Memoir, memory, Mortality, motherhood, nineteenth-century, Ontology, Past and Future, Peace, Philosophy, Poetry, presence, Psychology, public facade, Public Intellectual, relationships, Religion, Roles, Romance, spiritual not religious, Spirituality, status, status of women, Suffering, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, Theism, Theology, Time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Utopia, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist | Tagged 19th century influence, 19th century people, 19th century types, accurate memory, ante-bellum homes, Bangor Maine, barrel racing, camp in Maine, death and absence, death of friends, Downeast colors, Downeast Maine, event memory, filial piety, fishing boats, fog and water, friendship, generational continuity, Henry M. Rosenthal, homecoming, honorary local, inherited values, lobster fishing, local jobs, Maine forests, Maine landscape, memory and space, memory and time, misremembering, Narraguagus Bay, neighborly relations, Nobel Prize, past-to-future ties, people from "away", personal space, philosophy, philosophy students, philosophy teacher, place memory, predatory fish, psychoanalysis, remote places, rental cars, rootedness, small town, small town diner, small town life, summer people, teaching and listening, the art of listening, truth-seeking, Washington County | 4 Comments

Landscapes of the Heart

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Abigail

Landscapes of the Heart I hadn’t been to Manhattan (my home town) in over two years. But last week I went into town to meet my life-long friends, Frank and Ada, at the Neue Gallerie on 86th and Fifth. That’s … Continue reading →

Posted in "Absolute Freedom and Terror", Action, Afterlife, Alienation, Anthropology, Art, Art of Living, Autonomy, beauty, Bible, Childhood, Christianity, Cities, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Courage, Culture, Desire, dialectic, eighteenth century, Erotic Life, Eternity, Ethics, Evil, Existentialism, Faith, Fashion, Femininity, Feminism, Freedom, Friendship, Gender Balance, Guilt and Innocence, Health, hidden God, History, history of ideas, Idealism, Ideality, Identity, Immortality, Jews, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Literature, Love, Memoir, memory, Modernism, Mortality, nineteenth-century, Oppression, Past and Future, Peace, Political Movements, Power, Propaganda, Psychology, Reductionism, relationships, Religion, Roles, Romance, Seduction, Sex Appeal, Sexuality, Social Conventions, Spirituality, Suffering, Terror, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, Theism, Theology, Time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist | Tagged 9/11/01, ancient regime, art gallery, artifacts, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Buddhist, cab drivers, Central Park, character assasination, Christian, city life, civic life, civic wounds, coquettrie, court painter, deal-making, death, death scenes, defamation, dorm life, dying, eavesdropping, Edvard Munch, Edvard Munch's "The Scream", energy, Evangelical Christian, Existential dilemmas, farewells, feminine intelligence, French Revolution, German Expressionism, gossip, graveyards, guillotine, healing, Hebrew prayer, homesickness, igneous rock, internet shopping, landscape, last words, love of New York, love of Texas, Lower Manhattan, Loyalty, Marie Antoinette, mourning, Neue Gallerie, New World Trade Center, New Yorkers, Norwegian painters, nostalgia, painting, personal identity, pied à terre, portrait painting, psalm, rebirth, recollection, Reign of Terror, repair process, reputation, resurrection, skyline, skyscrapers, slander, small shops, small town life, social wounds, sociopaths, soul of a city, Spring, Twin Towers, Viennese cafés, Viennese pastries, Vigée Le Brun, will to live, World Trade Center, World War I, wounds | Leave a comment

“Gossip”

Posted on November 17, 2015 by Abigail

“Gossip” One of Abigail’s Adages – though I have yet to post it – is this: Slander is always believed. Even more so if it’s in print. Jurgen Habermas wrote a book called (forgive me, it’s his title, not mine) … Continue reading →

Posted in "Absolute Freedom and Terror", Absurdism, Academe, Action, Afterlife, Alienation, Anthropology, Art, Autonomy, Chivalry, Cities, Class, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Courage, Culture, Desire, dialectic, eighteenth century, Erotic Life, Eternity, Ethics, Evil, Existentialism, Faith, Fashion, Femininity, Feminism, Freedom, Friendship, Gender Balance, Guilt and Innocence, Heroes, History, history of ideas, Identity, Ideology, Idolatry, Immortality, Institutional Power, Jews, Journalism, Law, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Literature, Love, Martyrdom, Mind Control, nineteenth-century, Philosophy, Political, Political Movements, Power, Psychology, Public Intellectual, Reductionism, relationships, Religion, Roles, Seduction, Sex Appeal, Sexuality, Social Conventions, Sociobiology, Spirituality, Suffering, Terror, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, Theism, Time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Violence, War, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist | Tagged 18th century clubs, Ancient Judea, baby names, banishment, cafes, capital crime, cartoons, celebrity, character assasination, Classical Athens, coffee houses, credulity, crucifiction, damaging fiction, Danish philosophy, death, defamation, Downeast Maine, execution, friendship, gazettes, gossip, guilty verdicts, hemlock, Herodotus' Histories, I.F. Stone, I.F. Stones' The Trial of Socrates, I.F. Stones' Weekly, injustice, Jesus, Jurgen Habermas, justice, libel, Loyalty, magazines, malice, Marie Antoinette, modern Israel, moral luck, moral smallness, newsletters, op-eds, opinion journalism, ostracism, political cartoons, popularity, pornographic pamplets, post-war malaise, posthumous reputation, public opinion, quarrel, reputation, reputation loss, reputation rehabilitation, salons, shunning, slander, small town life, Socrates, Soren Kierkegaard, stereotyping, The Corsair, village life | 3 Comments

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