As recounted by Wayne Cristaudo ( Religion, Redemption and Revolution: The New Speech Thinking Revolution of Franz Rozenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy ), Rosenstock-Huessy took Emil Brunner to takes for his adoption of the “protestant myth” about a fall of the church in the fourth . . . . Continue Reading »
Dante learns a lesson from Virgil, and that lesson is about motion and poetry. Robert Pogue Harrison writes , that he learns “what it means to write a poem whose narrative not only moves but has movement as its prime directive. After the fall of Troy, Aeneas mobilizes the Trojan refugees and . . . . Continue Reading »
Joanne Lipman tries to explain the connection between musical training and success . Several particulars stand out. Lipman writes, “many high achievers told me music opened up the pathways to creative thinking. And their experiences suggest that music training sharpens other qualities: . . . . Continue Reading »
Dillard ( The Writing Life ) stresses that writing is as material an art as painting, architecture, or sculpture. Which means that you don’t follow the vision; you follow the words. Of course, she says it better: “you are wrong if you think that in the actual writing, or in the actual . . . . Continue Reading »
Annie Dillard ( The Writing Life ) “comforts the anguished” writer with some anecdotes about writers’ pace and habits: “The long poem, John Berryman said, takes between five and ten years. Thomas Mann was a prodigy of production. Working full time, he wrote a page a day. . . . . Continue Reading »
This year is the 1700th anniversary of Edict of Milan, and Constantine is academically hot and politically invisible . What might it mean for our politics if Constantine disappeared into the graduate seminars? . . . . Continue Reading »
Rosenstock-Huessy points out that “we” is not simply a plural, not simply “one plus one plus one,” not a plural as “10 chairs or 10 apples are.” “We” is a fundamentally liturgical pronoun: “It was not 10 oxen who first shouted ‘Te Deum . . . . Continue Reading »
Elijah makes a sudden appearance in 1 Kings’s depressing chronicle of idolatry, unfaithfulness, war, and death. In chapter 16, there’s a rapid turnover of kings, two military commanders who rebel against their masters, a suicide, Baal-worship and a temple of Baal. Turn the page, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Buber and Rosenstock were friends, and allies in certain matters, but Rosenstock had profound objections to Buber’s thought. Cristaudo ( Religion, Redemption and Revolution: The New Speech Thinking Revolution of Franz Rozenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy , 107 ) characterizes as the . . . . Continue Reading »
Rosenzweig and Rosenstock-Huessy were all about names, and so set themselves against philosophy as it came from Socrates and Plato. Critaudo ( Religion, Redemption and Revolution: The New Speech Thinking Revolution of Franz Rozenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy ) summarizes Rosenstock’s . . . . Continue Reading »
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