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A Book Review
Please read my review of A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert.
Assessing Solitude
“The End of Solitude,” an early 2009 essay by William Deresiewicz, thoughtfully surveys changing perspectives on solitude by teasing out its relationship to changing social and aesthetic trends. Deresiewicz examines early to modern European culture as well as life and … Continue reading
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Storytelling
Consider the idea that wine signifies sacredness, or theories about correspondences between external characteristics and intangible qualities, or the story of the hero’s miraculous birth. How marvelous that such ideas, theories, and stories travel to us through eons! Each one’s … Continue reading
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A Path Disinterested
How do we humans best understand impartiality or disinterestedness? The cumbersome German word Unvoreingenommenheit* provides a possible analogy for the inherent convolution of the concept. Let’s say two children are arguing. A wise adult can indeed listen impartially and sort … Continue reading
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Self-Government
If we think of rebellion, we usually think of it as disruptive and volatile. We think of armed rebels, teenage rebels, prisoner rebellions. Rebels work to wrest a situation out of a realm of control, for however short or long … Continue reading