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There is no democracy in any love relation: only mercy.
Reading Gillian Rose
the mental inertia that John Stuart Mill called the ‘deep slumber of a decided opinion’.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
hegemonic
Jonathan Rosen • The Best Minds
Zadie Smith: “He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.”
Molly Mielke • (self) concept
To be authentic was to express your feelings.
Elizabeth Wilson • Love Game: A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon
It was something quite different from the release into expressive individualism through the glorification of youthfulness.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
May yours be the latter.
Gillian Morris • Introducing Supernuclear: A guide to Coliving
With Rosa and Charles Taylor, I’m maintaining that our shared and contested sense of the good life is fundamental to our ways of being in the world. Therefore, I agree that technological acceleration has shifted the imagination of the church.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
To connect Taylor with Ehrenberg, what modernity considers to be a mental ailment is always connected to its ethic, to its assertion of what is good.