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Disaggregation
Disaggregation Disaggregation! What a title! Masses of people will be pushing in to hear what I have to say about that one! It’s the polysyllabic term for what I need to do: separate out and deal with the present pileup … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", answering questions, author interviews, avoiding platitudes, baring one's soul, being overwhelmed, Biblical covenant, chronological order, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, counting on friends, crowd-pleasing, cultural way stations, disaggregation, essentially Jewish, existentialist, fashions in self-knowledge, first discovered last explained, first things first, forthcoming book, Freudian, friend as fellow trapeze artist, friend of my time, friend of this place, frontier of life, genre of confession, gnostic, God and Israel, having a lot to say, helping women today, hour of retreat, I can't do this, intellectual fashions, knowing what you're talking about, landing safely, large canvas, life challenges, life crises, losing privacy, Marxist, memory pathway, nihilist, no rest for the weary, normal life, philosophic rationalism, physicalist-reductionist, polysyllabic words, proofreading, saying something new, sharing life's perils, sheltered thought, spiritual pilgrimage, truthful atmosphere, woman as pilgrim, woman interviewer
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Stand on the Rock
Stand on the Rock If I could, I surely would Stand on the rock where Moses stood … I don’t know which rock the singer had in mind. The great rocky crags of Sinai? Some low-lying monadnock near the Burning … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", Augustine’s Confessions, belief systems, book illustrations, confession as genre, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, desire for truth, desire to know, fashionable motivations, firm footing, getting published, group identity, group identity and truth, group think, identity and belief, identity problems, life adventure, life motivations, metaphysical curiosity, Moses, Mount Sinai, narrative, opinion shaping, philosophical curiosity, philosophical pilgrimage, power as motive, publishers' rejections, search for wisdom, sex as motive, spiritual pilgrimage, spiritual safety, stand on the rock, stand out in the crowd, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, thought-worlds, true story, woman's confession, woman's narrative
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