{"id":949,"date":"2024-02-10T14:45:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T14:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/10\/a-quasi-kierkegaardian-poke-at-paglia-catholic-pagan\/"},"modified":"2024-02-10T14:45:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T14:45:35","slug":"a-quasi-kierkegaardian-poke-at-paglia-catholic-pagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/10\/a-quasi-kierkegaardian-poke-at-paglia-catholic-pagan\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quasi-Kierkegaardian Poke at Paglia, Catholic Pagan"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Stack<\/em> leader<\/a> has her stuck at the aesthetic stage.<\/span><\/p>\n

I'm on a Kierkegaard jag again. I've been reading him all my philosophical life ever since my undergraduate teacher, Ronda Chervin, introduced him to me.  <\/span><\/p>\n

For an easy introduction to the Danish Socrates, I recommend Clare Carlisle, Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard<\/em> (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2019). Well done and heart-felt as only the female heart can feel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wikipedia:<\/span><\/p>\n

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S\u00f8ren<\/strong> (Danish:<\/span> [\u02c8s\u0153\u02d0\u0250\u032fn\u0329]<\/a><\/span>, Norwegian:<\/span> [\u02c8s\u00f8\u02d0\u0259\u0273]<\/a><\/span>) or S\u00f6ren<\/strong> (Swedish:<\/span> [\u02c8s\u0153\u030c\u02d0r\u025bn]<\/a><\/span>, German:<\/span> [\u02c8z\u00f8\u02d0\u0281\u0259n]<\/a><\/span>) is a Scandinavian<\/a> given name that is sometimes Anglicized<\/a> as Soren<\/strong>. The name is derived from that of the 4th-century Christian saint Severin of Cologne<\/a>,[1]<\/a><\/sup> ultimately derived from the Latin<\/a>severus<\/em> ("severe, strict, serious"). Its feminine form is S\u00f8rine, though its use is uncommon. The patronymic surname<\/a> S\u00f8rensen is derived from S\u00f8ren.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nomen est omen?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I am also on a Hannah Arendt kick. I've got four of her books in my library. Her The Human Condition<\/em> has been languishing on my shelves since aught-six, with only a few pages showing marks of attention, but now I am diving deep into its labyrinthine riches. An astonishing product of wide-ranging erudition, it is packed with insights and intriguing suggestions.<\/span><\/p>\n

It's long on Teutonic Tiefsinn<\/em> and somewhat short on Anglo-Angularity, if you catch my drift, but I've done my time on both sides of the Continental Divide and frequently wander back and forth as is the wont of a maverick. The maverick schtick<\/em> is supposed to convey that philosophical bipolarity, or, to try a different metaphor, my philosophical amphibiousness: I am at home on the dry and dusty desert  ground of nuts-and-bolts analysis, but also, though in lesser measure in my later phase, in the muddy waters and murky fluidity of Continental currents, not to mention the oft-neglected backwaters of Scholasticism. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Human Condition<\/em> show unmistakable signs of Heidegger's influence, but the man is not mentioned even once, for reasons I suspect but will keep to myself for the time being<\/em>. And while classifiable as a work in political philosophy, in THC there is no mention of, nor Auseindandersetzungen<\/em> with, either Leo Strauss or Carl Schmitt, again for reasons I suspect but will keep under my hat.<\/span><\/p>\n

A 5 February 2024 memo to self reads:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Compare Arendt to Schmitt on the nature of the political. Arendt: action (praxis<\/em>) constitutes the political realm. Action (vita activa<\/em>) is acting together<\/em>, the sharing of words and deeds, and thus co-operation (HC 198). For Schmitt, by contrast, the Freund-Feind<\/em> opposition defines the political. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

More grist for the mill.  <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Stack leader has her stuck at the aesthetic stage. I'm on a Kierkegaard jag again. I've been reading him all my philosophical life ever since my undergraduate teacher, Ronda Chervin, introduced him to me.   For an easy introduction to the Danish Socrates, I recommend Clare Carlisle, Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of … Continue reading “A Quasi-Kierkegaardian Poke at Paglia, Catholic Pagan”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,62,410,343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-aesthetics","category-catholic-corner","category-existentialism","category-kierkegaard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","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=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}