Archive for the 'Sacred/Secular' Category
recognition redistribution
i am reading fraser again to incorporate parts of her argument in the first chapter on the relationship between class and other forms of identity in building a social movement. thus far, i have these issues with her argument:
1a. its not clear what she understands by class. is it a particular social category which got [...]
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Solipsism and Walter Pater
so, i’ve been reading walter pater. and i realized (and i kind of remember this vaguely form my education in eng. lit too) that the medieval ages were perhaps pretty solipsistic too. one could find petrarch something similar to prufrock. but the renaissance as pater seems to be making the case is tried to get [...]
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Walter Pater
I like to read variously. By this I mean that if I am studying one thing, whatever that maybe (organizing in modernity for my dissertation), then I read something completely at variance with this. Thus, Walter Pater on The Renaissance. Also, I’ve liked reading about the Renaissance since my undergraduate years. [...]
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Sacred/Secular
“The problem is, rather, that we do not have any analytic categories in our aggressively secular academic discourse that do justice to the real, everyday, and multiple connections that we have to what we, in becoming modern, have come to see as nonrational. Tradition/modernity, rational/nonrational, intellect/emotion-these untenable and problematic binaries have haunted our self-representations in [...]
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