Kenosis puts the emptiness in a new light. It values the emptiness. It says ‘empty protest’ is a via negativa, a non-positivist way of entering the political arena. You take your outrage seriously, but you don’t force yourself to have answers. Trust your nose. You know what stinks. Don’t

on here.

Hillman, J. (1992). The thought of the heart and the soul of the world.

answer. The answers will come, if they come, when they come, to you, to others, but don’t fill in the emptiness of the protest with positive suggestions before their time. First, protest! I don’t know what should be done about most of the major political dilemmas, but my gut (my soul, my heart, my skin, my eyes)

an important way that things get passed on from generation to generation” (p. 236).

Hillman, J. (2006). City and soul. Putnam, CT: Spring.

“Pass . . . on what you love . . . political action, civil disobedience, even if you know you’re going to lose.

“revolution.” By revolution he means: “turning over. Not development or unfolding, but turning over the system that has made you go into analysis to begin with—the system being government by minority and conspiracy, official secrets, national security, corporate power, et cetera”

eat is not right, where the air I breathe is not right, where the architecture in which I spend my time assaults me, the lighting and the chairs and the smells and the plastic are not right. Where the words I hear on TV and are printed in the newspaper are lies, where the people who are in charge of things are not right because they are hypocritica