{"id":8137,"date":"2014-02-11T12:18:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T12:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/11\/towards-a-phenomenology-of-aunts\/"},"modified":"2014-02-11T12:18:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T12:18:37","slug":"towards-a-phenomenology-of-aunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/11\/towards-a-phenomenology-of-aunts\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards a Phenomenology of Aunts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnfindlay.com\/\" target=\"_self\">John Niemeyer Findlay<\/a>, <em>The Transcendence of the Cave<\/em>&#0160; (Allen &amp; Unwin, 1967), p. 218:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">And it [a sound phenomenology or existentialism] will surely find room for a phenomenological characterization of the brotherly, the sisterly and the cousinly, and will perhaps find room for a special chapter on aunts, that interesting transitional category between maternity and random femininity, devoting perhaps a special study to the romantic aunt, who, dark, interesting, and beautiful, brings into the nursery the rumour of strange voyages and amazing encounters, as well as sympathies almost unbearably touching.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Findlay once told us that Ruth Barcan Marcus had referred to him as a &quot;high-minded sentimentalist.&quot;&#0160; Well, if I were to be banished to the moon tomorrow, and forced to choose between Marcus and Findlay as my sole philosophical reading matter, the choice would be an easy one.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Niemeyer Findlay, The Transcendence of the Cave&#0160; (Allen &amp; Unwin, 1967), p. 218: And it [a sound phenomenology or existentialism] will surely find room for a phenomenological characterization of the brotherly, the sisterly and the cousinly, and will perhaps find room for a special chapter on aunts, that interesting transitional category between maternity and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/11\/towards-a-phenomenology-of-aunts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Towards a Phenomenology of Aunts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-findlay-j-n"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}