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Women Enemies and Women Friends
In Liaisons Dangereuses, the eighteenth-century epistolary novel of cynicism by Choderlos de Laclos, the plot turns around two aristocrats who co-conspire to seduce their unsuspecting victims. Their purpose is not so much to gratify sexual desire as to enjoy the … Continue reading →
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Tagged 18th-century novel, academic gossip, academic politics, antisocial behavior, at home in the world, attacking a friendship, betraying trust, breaking faith, calumny and collegiality, calumny and lost friends, calumny and mutual trust, carcinogenic stress, Central Park Reservoir, chivalry between women, Choderlos de Laclos, co-conspirators, conspiracy to seduce, conspiring to victimize, culture-wide delusions, cynicism vs innocence, damaging fictions, damaging fictions believed, defamation and social envy, defaming gossip, defaming the innocent, dread medical verdict, effective defamations, epistolary novel, freemasonry of women, friendship betrayed, gallantry between women, gossip and social credit, harmful fictions, homeless in the world, Liaisons Dangereuses, Marquise de Merteuil, medical verdict, moral terror, moral victories, nature mirroring despair, nature reflecting moods, neighbors who are friends, New York neighbors, novel of cynicism, pathetic fallacy, psychogenic illness, psychological warfare, reductionism as cultural norm, reductionism as fashionable, reputation tarnishing, seduction, seduction for power, seductive lies, sisterhood of women, social damage, social danger, social death, social defeats, social envy, social power, social safety, social status, social terrorism, social violence, social war, social wound, surviving social warfare, symbolic murder, test of friendship, Vicomte de Valmont, vulnerability of women, when the bad guys win, woman as skillful enemy, woman colleague, women enemies, women friends, women giving a sense of home, women knowing where to strike, women supporting women, women undermining women, women victims, wounding socially
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Believers
Believers When I was a child, the grownups around me held all kinds of beliefs and I wished I could be like them. Failing that, I hoped they wouldn’t find out how I really felt. As a high school girl, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", American girls, American hostage in Teheran, anti-Jewish persecution, Barry Rosen, becoming a Jew, belief and identity, believers, Brooklyn College philosophy, child's insincerity, City University of New York, coherent narrative, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, core identity, courtship modalities, damned if you do damned if you don't, dialectical life, different strokes different folks, discovering Jewish identity, discovering one is Jewish, explaining everything, explaining one’s life, finding a narrative thread, French courtship, French women, Freudian psychoanalysis, girlfriends and boyfriends, God and chronology, God in history, God's presence, grownups' beliefs, handling insults, harassing Jewish students, hazing in Australia, Hegelian narrative, holding nothing back, Jewish explanations, Jewish identity, joke that's not a joke, keeping your cool, keeping your honor, losing social power, maintaining a sense of belonging, misspent youth, Park Avenue psychoanalysis, partnering with God, persecution and identity, personal motivation, personal uniqueness, philosophic memoir, post-modern deconstructions, pretend adoration, reductive explanation, Smith College girls, social clumsiness, social cuts, social double bind, social power, standing up to persecution, unified self, Yaffa Eliach's Hassidic Tales of the Holocaust
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Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir Talk about a Power Couple! He is responsible for the 20th-century French Existentialist claims that life is absurd, God nonexistent, we create our identities and the values we give to our projects. And she? … Continue reading →
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Tagged acculturation, anti-nature, arbitrary life projects, aristocratic pretensions, École normale supérieure, beauty and ugliness, bourgeois values, Carol Seymour-Jones’ A Dangerous Liason, character formation, compensatory piety, constructed identity, contingency, cosmetic values, created identities, dowry, escaping poverty, everything is permitted, existential misjudgments, false aristocracy, female chastity, female nature, feminine submission, French aestheticism, French existentialism, God’s non-existence, good-looking Frenchmen, gratuitous act, human nature, human nothingness, inherited wealth, intellectuals and culture, invented identities, invented values, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea, lookism, making the best of circumstances, mariage de raison, marital failure, marrying for class, marrying for money, Merleau-Ponty, necessity and contingency, normaliens, Power couple, Sartre’s family, second wave feminism, self-invention, Simone de Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, social class, social enchantment, social power, submissive womanhood, the Big Questions, the for-itself, the in-itself, the ugly kid, verbal brilliance, wealth and privilege, without God, womanizing husband, women's liberation, words as weapons
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Political Innocence
Political Innocence If each of us were sure we were right, we would never quarrel with anyone – much less break with friends – over politics. The politically-triggered quarrels, friendship breakages, civil-society breakdowns, result from our insecurity over what we … Continue reading →
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Tagged ad hominen fallacy, aim of marriage, Alasdair Macintyre's Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity, alienation, arguing to win, argument train, assembly line production, banked labor, better argument, broken friendship, capital, Capitalism, civil society, civil society breakdown, civility breakdown, communitarians, economic solutions, economic theory, elusive Beloved, emotional security, erotic life, fallability, fragmentary evidence, hidden Beloved, hypothetical explanation, hypothetical views, imperfect world, Industrial Revolution, informal fallacies, inherited consensus, inherited norms, insecurity, intellectual insecurity, Jane Roberts' The Afterdeath Journal of An American Philosopher: The World View of William James, liberty of mind, Marxian theory, mass production, modern philosophy, Modernity, moral insecurity, originality surpressed, originality v groupthink, persecution of Jews, philosophical argument, philosophical discussion, political solutions, power as the only truth, quarrels, Reform temple, repairing the world, social power, Song of Songs, space of friendship, Spinoza's Ethics, theory of surplus value, thought experiment, traditional values, trained philosophers, truth, truth-seeking, tyranny of gossip, unintended consequences, witch burning
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