From: "Nathan Goralnik" <rhizome85-AT-home.com> Subject: nussbaum/kierkegaard/nuclear war Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:08:33 -0700 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 They were already posted by Dan Irom. If you need them (Wade Deisman, this is true for you specifically), you need to include your e-mail address in the text of the e-mail, because sometimes I get your nickname but not your actual e-mail address, and then I can't respond. I feel horrible for clogging the list like this. To make it up to you I will include some kind of intelligent quote below: (William Barret, (philosopher and literary critic), Irrational Man, 1958, p. 3) "THE story is told (by Kierkegaard) of the absent-minded man so abstracted from his own life that he hardly knows he exists until, one fine morning, he wakes up to find himself dead. It is a story that has a special point today, since this civilization of ours has at last got its hands on weapons with which it could easily bring upon itself the fate of Kierkegaard's hero: we could wake up tomorrow morning dead-and without ever having touched the roots of our own existence. There is by this time widespread anxiety and even panic over the dangers of the atomic age; but the public soul-searching and stocktaking rarely, if ever, go to the heart of the matter. We do not ask ourselves what the ultimate ideas behind our civilization are that have brought us into this danger; we do not dare to be philosophical. Uneasy as we are over the atomic age, on the crucial question of existence itself we choose to remain as absent-minded as the man in Kierkegaard's story. One reason we do so lies in the curiously remote position to which modern society has relegated philosophy, and which philosophers themselves have been content to accept." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBOdKoHmPiNpsHufNqEQKQZgCfZVBB9f3NLmdDgao+wKAIh/RW4fcAnjP1 MwZ0AbxMIa1CC8TBkRlCHHzU =u8ve -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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