Education, Philosophy, Theology
Murchland, Bernard
tory of race relations from the time of Jackson to the Nixon era, Wilson by drawing out the implication that far more than color shapes individual perspective on race: the white fear of...
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...In a concluding chapter on Camus and the American reader Lazere suggests his appeal for us is to be found in his basic healthiness, "an emotional equilibrium and intellectual wholeness" manifested in a body of writing in which he "encompassed the most extreme nihilistic attitudes of his time without personally going off the deep end into suicide, violence, insanity, nervous breakdowns, or drugs...
...William Lynch is doing somewhat the same thing (although within a religious framework) in his Images o/ Faith (University of Notre Dame Press, $6.95...
...To read him is to rekindle one's hopes that participatory democracy may not be a pipe dream after all...
...he knows well how our modern idols have failed us one after the other and he knows better than Mailer what the self is up against in the banal and anomic circumstances of life...
...There is no trace of the pompous and salvific tone that often characterizes essays of this sort...
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...A person, for example, is defined as a collection of relatents...
...Thus, Oliver Cromwell had a 2,332-gram brain, the average for the Europid being 1,400...
...It is a matter of observation that large numbers are today rejecting the primacy of material values and the heyday of the influence of science on our fundamental attitudes is probably passed...
...It is not surprising for the root metaphors that sustained the scientific enterprise, while not lacking in mythic richness, were never of the sort that could withstand indefinitely the human cry for meaning...
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...One of the artist's important tasks is to try to fill this 'lacuna, to elaborate the metaphors necessary to sustain spirit in this moment of history...
...It is perhaps appropriate to begin with a George Shuster anthology (On the Side o/ Truth, edited by Vincent P. Lanie, University of Notre Dame Press, $9.95) for a couple of reasons...
...Father Lynch's field of study, as it has been in a number of his books, is the relationship between imagination and faith, between images and belief...
...On alienated labor: "The old gap between intellectual and physical work is now being gradually replaced by a new one: with the creative work of a few on the one hand, and the utterly dull routine work of the vast majority on the other...
...To be educated to this understanding is to be initiated into the kind of wisdom that alone can make urban life synonymous with the good life...
...On the technostructure: "If the technostructure has any philosophy, it is a philosophy of complete nihilism and of complete social irresponsibility...
...The direction of Markovic's thinking can be surmised with the help of a few quotations...
...She was a woman who did not hesitate to proclaim that God vindicates the humble and oppressed, and removes the powerful people of this world from their privileged positions...
...Wide experience based on the cornerstones of criticism and creation provide the formula for the fullest human wisdom...
...When I began to canvass the lists of University Presses for this assignment I was looking especially for books on the philosophy of education...
...Since I suspect that the answer to these questions is "no," the catholicity of this Catholic University is not catholic enough to embrace what I mean by truth and morality...
...The universities are after all in the business of education (although this is sometimes overlooked) and in the current crises that beset them, and beset the liberal arts above all, I would have thought a critical interest in this plight a normal concern of their publishing endeavors...
...Each of these "moralists" defines his stand against the grain of American culture...
...Cognition, however, is the force, Baker asserts, which has built civilization...
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...the great central problem of the Western world is how to adjust the civic processes descending from the American and French revolutions to the romantic theory of every human being as an inviolable end in itself...
...He offers his From Affluence to Praxis: Philosophy and Social Criticism (University of Michigan Press, $12.95) as a blueprint for a better society, based on Marx's humanism and his own experience in the postwar experiments in self-government attempted in his country...
...Bierman belongs to that species of philosopher who wants his discipline to thrive in the marketplace as well as the academy...
...Bierman shrewdly points out that our substitute for philospohical talk is legislation...
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...Rather than abandon the problem to future scientists with more sensitive equipment, Baker states: "In the existing circumstances reliance must be placed on easier, though still very difficult, observations --not on the source of mental activities in the cerebral hemispheres, but on their results as manifested in the activities of man...
...The Christ of ironic faith is the king without a kingdom, he who dies in order to live, who turns stones into bread and then declares that man does not live by bread alone, thus suggesting that the real miracle lies elsewhere...
...Taking the results of cognition testing carried out on American school children from differing racial backgrounds, Baker concludes that the direction of morphological investigations has been proven to be correct: intelligence will vary in accordance with racial background...
...Above all, it is honest...
...Loss of faith today is a failure of imagination, specifically the ironic imagination...
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...Wrestling with the chaos, trying to shape it for the comfort of man, is the ultimate challenge to the worth of philosophy...
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...and Latin America in relation to three basic aspects of political modernization: the secularization of polities, mass politicization...
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...it gives us the strength we need to work through the dualisms, and contradictions of existence, to gather up the fragments of reality into a unified whole...
...Faith is one such paradigm...
...We learn that brain weight and number of convolutions in tissue were originally considered to be the clue to establishing intelligence...
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...No method for ending loneliness is forthcoming other than "the formation of new relationships that might repair the deficit responsible for loneliness...
...and many of his own works fall far short of the reputation they once enjoyed...
...Baker is concerned with the apparent break between the direction of morphological thinking in the nineteenth century and contemporary thought on the ethnic problem...
...Shuster offers what seem to me two very good suggestions for clearing up some of our present muddles in education...
...One wants to know," he writes, "whether it is conceivable that members of two taxa may differ in large numbers of groups of genes affecting many parts of the body, but not at all in those that affect the nervous and sensory systems and therefore play a part in determining mental qualities...
...315 pages $9.95 (cl), $3.95 (pa) CHICANO REVOLT IN A TEXAS TOWN John Staples Shocldey The story of how poor Mexican Americans twice in the past decade wrested the political control of Crystal City, Texas, from a small group of Anglos...
...Bellow is the most philosophical of our novelists (with the possible exception of Percy), 24 May 1974:292 the most adept at exploring what Scott calls "the phenomenology of selfhood...
...What Mailer calls for is "a profoundly spiritual regeneration," "a new path for the imagination," a restoration of the nation's "moral substance," "a revolution of conscience...
...The usual objection to this approach is that it can never get very far into the nature of religion, into the subjective, metaphorical, numinous realm where religion essentially is...
...As far as I can judge this is true...
...To use Father Lynch's language, they come very often to an ironic faith...
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...We are told that Mailer's fundamental commitment is to "the politics of salvation...
...His method involves him in continuous distinctions of this sort...
...I didn't find much here that was strictly speaking original but it offers a thorough discussion of all of the French author's writings and takes generous account of the critical literature...
...his literary judgment has been shown to be frequently defective...
...Loneliness, Weiss writes, has "received remarkably little professional attention...
...We must, Shuster emphasizes, single out those of genuine intellectual competence at an early age, free them from economic and other burdens and set them upon an intellectual career with the conviction that the life of the mind is a privileged and indispensable vocation...
...Smart claims a scientific study of religion is possible and he wants to claim this without reducing religious belief to something merely human on the one hand or necessarily metaphysical ND University of Notre Dame Press Not'c Dc~'-~c Ind;an,~ 46556 ON THE SIDE OF TRUTH: George N. Shuster: An Evaluation with Readings Vincent P. Lannle, editor The religious, political, and educational views of the Assistant to the President of the University of Notre Dame, formerly the president of Hunter College and editor of Commonweal...
...Revolution is not the solution...
...Scott pays Trilling deserved tribute in saying that he is "a part of the best we have" and correctly notes that as his thought moves further from the areas of aesthetics and criticism strictly speaking and more into the region of philosophical anthropology we may expect not only greater systematic clarity but radically new insights into our condition as well...
...It is the kind of moment when mediocre talents take over and mediocre images, filled with the easy ironies of contempt, lacking in any charity or in the capacity to cause educating recognition, divide the culture groups...
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...When all is said and done, Mailer offers us precious little in the way of "salvation...
...Why would anyone presume to "cure" a condition so universally human...
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...Our need, Father Lynch says, is for ironic faith because "our own ironic images are in a state of pitiful disrepair...
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...Images o[ Faith is worth reading and returning to...
...On democracy: "Contrary to the claims of professional politicians in both capitalistic and socialist countries, there is very little democracy in the contemporary world...
...The fact is that almost nowhere do the vast majority of people really influence decision-making on essential matters...
...Therefore to humanize radically the contemporary world means to create conditions in which each individual can participate in the control of the enormous social and technical forces which man has at his disposal...
...They come to an understanding of patience and sympathy and laughter...
...Loneliness is a structure of human existence to be understood rather than a disease to be cured...
...Our last hope after so many dead gods is in the power of the creative artist to show us a way...
...The social future, he concedes, belongs to the scientist and the engineer...
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...He has some very worthwhile things to say...
...Ironic faith urges upon us humility, tolerance, humor and issues into an unshakable conviction about things...
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...Mailer, according to Scott, "espouses a kind of religious radicalism" and is dedicated in some unusual way to "supervising language in ways that will invigorate the imagination of the people of his age...
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...Steering a middle course (as he always tried to do) between the formalists on the one hand and those who would subordinate art to some specific political doctrine, Camus fashioned an aes24 May 1974:290 thetic, one that despite its flaws remains highly applicable to our present predicaments...
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...his suggestions practical and his theoretical framework tightly controlled by his considerable knowledge of realpolitik...
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...Bierman's philosophy of the city is built upon these twin concepts...
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...The present book concentrates primarily on the third of these aims...
...The paradigm of faith is, finally and most importantly, ironic...
...And until the passage of the minimum wage law this year the median wage of full-time, year-round household workers was less than $2,000...
...Baker's book issues from the laboratory rather than society today, the work of a biologist and cytologist who laments the lack of scientific thinking on the "ethnic problem...
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...I see him as a writer of talent whose reputation rests to some extent on his ability to amuse...
...Beginning with Binet in Paris in the late nineteenth century, through the refinements of Terman and Spearman in America, Baker believes that culturefree tests have now been developed which enable us to catalogue the cognitive potential of the different human taxa, and to rate them on an hierarchical scale...
...It's a model of historical scholarship and also makes for delightful reading...
...Lionel Trilling has taken up his critical position near what he takes to be the center of modern man's moral preoccupations and has explored with great dedication our "chosen images of personal being...
...His idea of limits, to give an example, still lends itself to political and artistic embodiment...
...The publishers present it as the most comprehensive critical work on Camus since his death...
...It is perceptive of real issues...
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...What he says most centrally is that faith itself is a life of the imagination, a form of successful imagining...
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...He emphasizes a phenomenological method because it brackets questions like God's existence...
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...Faith must make the same patient movement...
...Two other books focus on humanistic themes but with more methodological care...
...These themes constitute Trilling's "anxious humanism...
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...I must confess I don't see that much depth in Mailer...
...Bierman's book encourages me to say that more philosophers ought to try their hand at this sort of thing...
...Liturgy CHRISTIAN INITIATION: adult catechumenate and its ritualization...
...Jones' principal theme is romanticism and its effects on the revolutionary spirit--particularly as manifested in the American and French revolutions...
...Another book that dovetails with some of Markovic's analyses is A. K. Bierman's The Philosophy o/ Urban Existence (Ohio University Press, $8.50...
...Above all, it teaches us to break out of the tyranny of the single image to relish the complexity and variety of life...
...Biological microteehnique can deal only with the activities of single genes which produce secondary characteristics: it is not sufficiently developed to reveal the morphological basis of complex thought processes...
...As this concept unfolds the limitations of rugged individualism, ethnocentricism and romantic concepts of freedom are pointed out...
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...Camus did not betray that hope and indeed he responded to it directly, almost in a personal way...
...In the final analysis, "there is relatively little we can know of other men...
...After this and similar winged hopes, Shuster's prognosis for Catholic education (and I take it private education generally) struck me as far too timid...
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...For others have argued that Mailer is an instance of the very speciousness he decries, a writer whose talent is at the behest of the highest bidder...
...He means this in a Socratic rather than a schoolly sense and calls for deliberate effort to create the circum...
...He takes from Marx the hope that oppressive societies can be replaced by a praxis that maximizes man's potential for freedom and creativity...
...And so for all the great ironists throughout history: Don Quixote, PasReligion and Now in paper Political The Patient Modernization as Person Donald Eugene Smith, editor In this volume, fifteen authors examine particular religions and societies in South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East...
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...The focus is therefore the 18th century but Jones' analyses point a moral for our own times as well...
...To continue, Shuster writes wryly, to accept the lowest common pupil denominator as the norm is to doom the potential intellectual power of the nation "to turning somersaults around the statue of Huckleberry Finn...
...Education, Philosophy, Theology Bernard Murchland I HAVE HAD a fair spell of reading and of the books before me for comment no particular order imposes itself...
...On alienation: "Almost all contemporary forms of alienation are rooted in the existence of social groups which have a monopoly on the economic and political power...
...Father Lynch describes it in terms of the following attributes: it is primal (a deep, prerational force that shapes our basic attitudes and aspirations long before the advent of reflective knowledge, a Dionysian vigor that sweeps our energies toward ecstasy and union...
...A necessary step to the end Bierman envisages is to sever the city from federal and state governments and thus bring into being the city state...
...He sees Mailer, like Whitman, pitted against the "irredeemable madness of America"--against the raped landscape, the bleak architecture, dehumanizing technocracy, sexual repression and a general addiction to the plastic and the shoddy...
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...Consequently human consciousness is split, an atomistic approach to reality still prevails...
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...If for the variety of human taxa we are to posit equality in mental capacity, Baker asks "what known cause of evolution could have produced this result...
...The Leftist critics have launched an effective attack upon his political views...
...Bellow's characters mature...
...Mihailo Markovic is a well known Yugoslav philosopher who has lectured extensively in this country...
...The basic units of the city state are neighborhoods and persons...
...Nothing seems to follow...
...The grave central problem of our day is not the destruction of the state or of institutions or of ordinary forms of decorum by casual violence...
...15.0o A Religious History of the American People Syndey E. Ahlstrom "'A labor of love which was ten years in the making and will undoubtedly have the field to itself for the indefinite future...
...On bureaucracy: "Ruling people as if they were things is the fundamental social evil...
...Art, for Camus, has paradigmatic value for society...
...His book is an exercise in the philosophy of religion, a discipline that has three ends: to elucidate the meanings of religious utterances, to exhibit the criteria of truth in religion and to investigate and delineate the methodology of the religious sciences...
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...He notes that all the congresses, charts and data on urban problems are "dreary, narrow, dated, jerry-built, money-bound and visionless" without a philosophical understanding of the city's place in the pursuit of the good life...
...The moralists in question are Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow and Lionel Trilling--all Jewish, all masterful diagnosticians of the time's ills, all exploring in their manner the dimensions of ironic faith...
...there is only so much professors (whose vision has so often been narrowed by the requirements of the Ph.b degree and whose efforts with their students so often thwarted by such demands of the academic marketplace as publishing) can teach...
...Everyone, to be sure, is capable of some degree of liberal arts education...
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...it is moving (that is, it carries us through the various stages of life, giving the temporal domain dramatic flavor and intensity...
...I appreciate Scott's emphasis and have learned from it but he is far too adulatory toward his subject and claims rather more for Mailer than can be substantiated...
...His "hipster" is a metaphor for a contemporary overman who refuses to make a pact with the "attenuated" world of technology, who coins images of violence, orgasm, nihilism and death in the quest for authenticity, who refuses to accept "the supposition that the human reality is to be ordered by the rules of science, that we must live within the abstractions of the positivist mind...
...Jein the universal struggle for human di|nity--through education, skilled trades, a|riculture, engineering, business, urban planning, medicine & other fields of community development...
...There is only so much the young can learn in a formal way...
...Scott offers clear and intelligent commentary on the themes that make up the essays in The Liberal Imagination, Beyond Culture, The Opposing Self, and Sincerely and Authenticity...
...But, and this is Shuster's second suggestion, it must not be taken too seriously...
...Our institutions of higher learning can at best dispense but a portion of this...
...Smart's book shows convincingly how the rigorous application of a method (phenomenology in this case) can illuminate the subject matter of religion (his examples are drawn largely from Buddhism...
...If the imagination is to get anywhere in the way of insight and understanding, Father Lynch writes, "it must progressively move through the finite, the detail, the definite, the phases, the time, the stages of the human and of human life...
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...The disrepair of ironic images could fairly be described as the theme of Nathan Scott's Three American Moralists (The University of Notre Dame Press, $6.95...
...Religious values are likely to become even more peripheral for most...
...The scientific problem, if not the moral dilemma, lies in the fact that current cytological research has refined what nineteenth century science pointed to as the issue but has run up against the limitations of modern technology...
...Bellow gives more...
...It seems to me a psychiatric approach ought to cut deeper (Weiss teaches in the Department of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School...
...Decry,ing the moral rot of America is not necessarily a sign of high-mindedness...
...It sets forth models of community and freedom and faith that constitute genuine gifts to the times...
...We have, ,really, Howard Mumford Jones' Revolution and Romanticism (Harvard University Press, $15...
...For my part I believe no one now writing is more qualified to render anything like a definitive portrait of our age of alienation than Lionel Trilling...
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...Through our imaginative paradigms we create and experience the world in suitable ways...
...There are essays here on religion and politics as well as education but it is primarily the voice of Commonweal: 289 the educator we hear throughout...
...The three books just considered are humanistic in the best sense of the word: readable yet written with some rigor, insightful without murkiness, hopeful all in taking into account the darkest experiences of the age...
...Scholarship is only one path to wisdom just as knowledge is only one kind of virtue...
...they bespeak one man's resistance to the dominant orthodoxies of the age and by the same token set our imaginations free to pursue more authentic images...
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...Whatever biologists may think of the legitimacy of this leap, others interested in the social ramifications of the "ethnic problem" are bound to feel uneasY...
...He would want to say that as an object of religious belief God is real whether or not he exists...
...These are yet further ways of denying limits (Bellow is much like Camus in his analysis of Romantic excess...
...the black American will experience tension in relation to his marginal status...
...Baker pursues the history of the development of intelligence testing, being careful to point out that intelligence is divisible into discrete parts and that tests have only been developed to measure cognition...
...faith is also embodied...
...Studies from the animal world reveal that morphological differences also determine adaptability...
...That has a rich Platonic flavor as does this definition of truth: "An awareness of the vital activity of the receptive, creative human mind face to face with reality in the whole of its illusory overtness and its revealing concealment...
...We pine after psychic health like the hart after sweet waters and appear singularly unsuccessful in our quest...
...Readers of Shockley and Jensen take notice...
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...In his preface Jones says the book was written for the fun of writing it...
...Thus Christ, both God and man, transvaluating all values with his upsetting views on power and wealth, driving beneath appearances for a multiple view of reality...
...It is civilized, full of confidence in the goodness of reason...
...Scott is good at showing just how the rage and range of Mailer's artistry is closely connected to his version of America's heart of darkness...
...tory of race relations from the time of Jackson to the Nixon era, Wilson by drawing out the implication that far more than color shapes individual perspective on race: the white fear of encroachment on economic and status preserves heightens racial tension...
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...it is the informing principle of all that man makes...
...Because some of my own recent research has had to do with the function of metaphor in philosophical systems it was with more than passing interest that I took up Father Lynch's book...
...Bellow has a practiced sensitivity to the modern longing for non-being...
...But at the least one ought to admit that loneliness is one of the paths to selfknowledge, one of the ways in which we take our distance from the other in order to explore the dimensions of subjectivity...
...The Pope has reminded us that Mary of Nazareth was far from being a timidly submissive woman...
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...Shuster's claims for education are refreshingly modest...
...What contemporary culture cries out for is stronger metaphors and fresher images to guide its experience...
...Shuster invites us to dream of a better way, of a world in which "anyone who desists after his 50th year from gainful employment, in order to devote time and energy to the task of thinking through his experience for the benefit of himself and his fellows, will be exempt from all taxes...
...And it is powerful, too...
...And this definition of the liberal arts: "A course of study designed to encourage tentatively integrated learning about man's most fruitful insights into himself and the reality about him, so that a student may feel the texture of the known in order to be able to realize, sooner or later, that this is only the garment of the unknown...
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...We live, by our images, Camus said, and it was his judgment that our age has found no suitable replacements for the traditional images of man...
...stances of a vigorous dialectic, to edu...
...First of all he is well known to readers of this journal as a former editor and they might therefore be expected to look upon this collection with special interest and fondness and welcome comment upon it in something of the BERNARD MURCHLAND teaches in the Philosophy Department at Ohio Wesleyan...
...Education must be taken seriously...
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...We detect in his work a texture and a mellowness lacking in Mailer...
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...We assume a free press will keep us informed and the legislators honest...
...Let's dream all the way and suggest such persons be supported by tax monies...
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...And so, each in his own way, all of us...
...There is really nothing like it on the market...
...Robert Weiss' Loneliness: The Experience of Emotional and Social Isolation (the MIT Press, $8.95) and Ninian Smart's The Science of Religion and the Sociology of Knowledge: Some Methodological Questions (Princeton University Press, $8.50) both treat of subject matter of general interest in a specialized manner...
...We are lacking in short in studies that would describe what loneliness is and explain why it is that way...
...Volume I deals with the famous episode of the blooming of the "hundred flowers...
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...Jones is a river skater among scholars, gliding endlessly over the stream of Western culture surveying its broad outlines, digging into little known or unknown crannies, catching familiar sights from unusual vantage points and making tradition fresh with quickened prose and novel insight...
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...All in all the university is a locus of rather compressed experience...
...Of what I did find the Shuster volume is by far the most impressive...
...His most recent book is The New Iconoclasm (Doubleday...
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...The conclusion reached is that "loneliness is a deficit condition, a response to the absence of specific relational provisions...
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...it is creative (in the sense of activating our imaginations, making us aware of the possibilities and varieties of human endeavor and giving us the desire to pursue them...
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...Weiss says he cannot join those who say that we ought to cherish our loneliness...
...And in the same novel we find the affirmation that "the spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence...
...This is particularly true of Mailer...
...On Marx: "The critical thought of Marx is the fullest and historically the most developed expression of human rationality...
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...In presenting the history of thinking on race he attempts to unite in one continuous line of development the speculations of eighteenth century philosophers, nineteenth century physical scientists, and twentieth century geneticists...
...Surely she is concerned for her sisters...
...To the extent that this is true then religion (and its allies among the imaginative disciplines) is in a stronger position than Shuster seems to think...
...The papers printed in his book attempt such a description and such an explanation...
...Immanuel Kant, a 1,715-gram brain, and Beethoven, "only the usual complexity of convolutions...
...I wouldn't grant as much...
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...But journalism is no better a substitute for philosophy than legislation...
...it finds its true home in history, taking on the shapes of history-law, language, society and myth...
...Mailer's central theme, Scott claims, is the collapse of faith as a set of workable images...
...but even in the most ideal situations most won't respond to the challenge, settling instead for a slot in the meritocracy...
...His tone is positive...
...Camus' critique of secular ideologies is one of the themes emphasized in Donald Lazere's The Unique Creation o[ Albert Camus (Yale University Press, $12.50...
...So much for scientific materialism...
...The three works I turn to now all in varying ways bear this out...
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...One remains skeptical about such leaps from the biological to the psychological laboratory, and, with his link-up between cognition and civilization, about the ultimate social and humane implications of this type of biological research...
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...I found very little...
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...0 0 0 0 0 0 000 CORRESPONDENCE (Continued Jrom page 275) the reigning code of good citizenship, would that be welcomed there...
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...we let the solons hammer out our differences while we get on with the business of life...
...One, he strikes out hard against many of our egalitarian assumptions...
...You could scarcely get people to long for what was possible," a character observes in Mr...
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Vol. 100 • May 1974 • No. 12
