Now that I am without an institutional home I hope to use this blog as a place to air out ideas and start conversations. I am currently reading three books: Homer's The Odyssey, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species, and Hannah Arendt's The Life of the Mind. As I read through them I will offer commentaries and passages that tickle, excite, or enrage me. Let's start with Arendt:
"Cliches, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence" The Life of Mind pg. 4
"Cliches, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence" The Life of Mind pg. 4
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