Tag Archives: social complexity
Academic Gossip
Academic Gossip One of the seldom-mentioned pleasures of life in the academy – the House that Plato Built – is academic gossip. It juxtaposes the life of ideas against real-life — whetting one’s appetite for both! I’m about two-thirds of … Continue reading →
Posted in Absolute Freedom and Terror, absurdism, academe, action, afterlife, alienation, art of living, atheism, autonomy, bad faith, Biblical God, bigotry, book reviews, books, cities, class, conformism, contemplation, contradictions, cool, courtship, cults, cultural politics, culture, desire, dialectic, erotic life, eternity, ethics, evil, existentialism, exploitation, faith, fashion, femininity, feminism, freedom, friendship, gender balance, glitterati, Gnosticism, guilt and innocence, Hegel, hegemony, hidden God, history of ideas, id, idealism, ideality, identity, ideology, idolatry, immorality, institutional power, Jews, Judaism, law, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, love, male power, masculinity, master, master/slave relation, memoir, memory, Messianic Age, mind control, modern women, modernism, moral action, moral evaluation, moral psychology, morality, mortality, ontology, oppression, past and future, Phenomenology of the Mind, philosophy, politics of ideas, postmodernism, power, presence, promissory notes, psychology, public facade, public intellectual, radicalism, reductionism, relationships, religion, roles, romance, secular, seduction, self-deception, sex appeal, social climbing, social construction, social conventions, social ranking, spiritual journey, 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, violence, work, writing, Zeitgeist
|
Tagged AAR presidency, above the battle, academic gossip, academic politics, academic religionists, ambivalent relations, anarchist, antinomian, authority on Levinas, biographer's indiscretion, biographer's license, Columbia Seminar on Hermeneutics, Columbia University Religion Department, East Coast academia, Edith Wyschogrod, fatal gossip, Free University in Berlin, gender favoritism, Gnostic Libertine, Hillary Clinton, Jacob Neusner, Jacob Taubes, Jerry Z. Muller's Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes, Jewish Studies, lashon hara, life of ideas, life of ideas v real life, malicious rumors, Michael Wyschogrod, Morton Smith, mutual back scratching, mutual witnessing, New York Jewish intellectuals, nihilist, not getting involved, philosophico-theological terrain, roman à clef, rumor mongering, sexist accusations, sharing life stories, social assassination, social complexity, social death, social interactions, social sanctimony, Taubes anecdotes, the evil tongue, the House that Plato Built, therapeutic guru, visiting professorship
|
2 Comments
“Rudeness”
“Rudeness” A few years ago I was riding from terminal to terminal on an airport bus in Texas. By the time I climbed on board, the bus had standing room only. I was hanging on a strap, keeping my hand … Continue reading →
Posted in absurdism, academe, action, anthropology, art of living, beauty, chivalry, contemplation, contradictions, cool, courage, courtship, culture, desire, dialectic, erotic life, ethics, evil, faith, fashion, femininity, feminism, freedom, friendship, gender balance, guilt and innocence, health, hegemony, heroes, history, history of ideas, idealism, ideality, identity, ideology, idolatry, immorality, institutional power, Jews, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, love, male power, masculinity, master, memory, mind control, mortality, non-violence, oppression, past and future, peace, philosophy, political, political movements, politics, power, propaganda, psychology, public facade, public intellectual, reductionism, relationships, roles, romance, seduction, self-deception, sex appeal, sexuality, slave, social conventions, sociobiology, suffering, terror, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Utopia, violence, work, writing, Zeitgeist
|
Tagged academic dinner parties, action theory, ad hominem argument, Aristotle, Aristotle’s Ethics, Australian philosophical life, baiting, belief systems, Bullying, Cambridge University, chivalry, civil life, collegial relations, collegiality, conviviality, courtesy, desperate straits, dinner parties, effrontery, faculty wives, false consciousness, frustrated chivalry, gallantry, gentlemen, governing charters, hegemony, Hobbes’s Leviathan, human history, idealization of men, idealization of women, impertinence, incivility, ingratitude, insults, Jew-baiting, kid stuff, ladies, ladies first, launching a movement, life and death struggle, macro-history, Male Power, male supremacy, manners, manners and rules, masked insults, membership dues, membership roster, minority group, minority status, name-calling, new political movement, number one, obscenity, Oppression, oppressive system, ostracism, outspokenness, patriarchy, Peterhouse, philosophers from Peterhouse, philosophical abstractions, Political Movements, politics of the future, power smiles, powerlessness, precision in action, pretense, privacy, private sensibilities, rape, rape threat, rule of law, rule of the stronger, rules, sensitivity, ship christening, social complexity, social courage, social dilemmas, social empowerment, social ordeals, social patterns, social reciprocity, social reprisals, state of nature, Texans, the Other, the right act, toothy smiles, tyranny of the majority, U.K., unfair advantage, virtues, vulgarity, war of all against all, women & children first
|
Leave a comment