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Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 20:25:48 -0700
From: dwalter-AT-ucla.edu (don walter)
Subject: Ssliwinski & the Other


First, apology to Shelley Purcell, for confusing her name with two Sharon's.

I think that Ssliwinski has not gotten very much outside her
end-20th-century habits of thought.  Ideas of the Other (more or less
originating with, or at least popularized by, Sartre? I'm not well informed
on this...) are very 20th-century, in my understanding-- unless Kierkegaard
started this.  But to get outside one's habitual 'clothing of thought' can
be very anxious-making, in the line of agoraphobia, the fear of the open
market, when one has been, unawares, all one's life, clothed in either one's
family's world-view, or else its opposite (through adolescent rejection).
Sharon S. really would profit by reading DuBois, and looking into some of
the sources she suggests, for finding how strangely different the old Greeks
were.

Don




   

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