None of us is perfect, but the point of our writing is to try to become better, to learn something that we may not have already realized, about ourselves, about the world we inhabit.
In one of my favorite anecdotes about Foucault, someone asks him why he writes books. He responds by saying something like "When I begin to write a b… - Thomas L. Dumm
In one of my favorite anecdotes about Foucault, someone asks him why he writes books. He responds by saying something like "When I begin to write a b…
- Thomas L. Dumm
None of us is perfect, but the point of our writing is to try to become better, to learn something that we may not have already realized, about ourse… - Thomas L. Dumm
None of us is perfect, but the point of our writing is to try to become better, to learn something that we may not have already realized, about ourse…
Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the negative dimensio… - Thomas L. Dumm
Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the negative dimensio…
I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what [political philosopher] Sheldon Wolin has recently labele… - Thomas L. Dumm
I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what [political philosopher] Sheldon Wolin has recently labele…
Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source… - Thomas L. Dumm
Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source…
As lovers of truth, we want to be close to it. Sometimes - evil thought, evil temptation - we want to be close to it by misleading others about its p… - Thomas L. Dumm
As lovers of truth, we want to be close to it. Sometimes - evil thought, evil temptation - we want to be close to it by misleading others about its p…
There are degrees of loneliness, ways in which the experience of loneliness deepens, becomes something like what we might call a way of life. This wa… - Thomas L. Dumm
There are degrees of loneliness, ways in which the experience of loneliness deepens, becomes something like what we might call a way of life. This wa…
I look back on some of my early reviews of others, and realize to my chagrin that I've been as guilty as anybody else on that front. - Thomas L. Dumm
I look back on some of my early reviews of others, and realize to my chagrin that I've been as guilty as anybody else on that front.
I'm pretty sure my dog, Pip, gets lonely when there is no one to be with him. But we humans can end up with a gnawing worry about that separation pos… - Thomas L. Dumm
I'm pretty sure my dog, Pip, gets lonely when there is no one to be with him. But we humans can end up with a gnawing worry about that separation pos…
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