Cynicism and trust
While cynicism is no less reasonable than trust, the latter is much more enjoyable and life affirming. Thus Jo Carruthers in a review of Javier Marías’s novel The Infatuations. While it seems obvious...
View ArticleThe barbarians have already been governing us for quite some time
What matters … is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages, which are already upon us. The...
View ArticleHomelessness as ethical and aesthetic normativity
Being at home means belonging, but it also means constructing borders and excluding the other. Any kind of group identification constructs the social category of the other. Homes are primarily sites...
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