Tag Archives: tough-minded philosophers
“The Completed ‘Confessions of a Young Philosopher'”
“The Completed ‘Confessions of a Young Philosopher’” Last Sunday, I finished a life work. I mean, finished it to my satisfaction. It’s done – as I always hoped it could be. Some years back, I had published an earlier version … Continue reading
Posted in absurdism, academe, action, alienation, American politics, anthropology, art, art of living, atheism, autonomy, beauty, childhood, Christianity, class, conformism, contemplation, contradictions, cool, courage, cults, cultural politics, culture, desire, dialectic, erotic life, eternity, ethics, evil, existentialism, faith, fashion, femininity, feminism, films, freedom, friendship, gender balance, glitterati, Gnosticism, health, Hegel, hegemony, heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, history, history of ideas, id, idealism, ideality, identity, idolatry, immorality, institutional power, Jews, Judaism, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, literature, love, male power, masculinity, master, memoir, memory, Messianic Age, mind control, modernism, mortality, motherhood, mysticism, nineteenth-century, non-violence, oppression, pacifism, past and future, peace, philosophy, political, political movements, politics, power, propaganda, psychology, public facade, public intellectual, race, relationships, roles, romance, romantic love, seduction, self-deception, sex appeal, sexuality, slave, social climbing, social construction, social conventions, social ranking, sociobiology, 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, victims, violence, war, work, writing, Zeitgeist
Tagged agents, Augustine’s Confessions, Australian materialists, Bildungsroman, celebrity memoirs, coming-of-age novels, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, critical notice, critics, editors, life work, lost innocence, Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, marketing, marketing and writing, marketing books, movie stars, narrative nonfiction, novels, plotlines, publishing, rejections, Rousseau’s Confessions, spiritual journey, stolen innocence, teaching tools, tell-all books, the world’s opinion, tough-minded philosophers, validation, vindication, writer as politician, writers, writers' frustration, writing as teaching
2 Comments