Instructor of English, Northeast Alabama Community College.
We shall not live by bread alone. Ask me about hermeneutics.
If the pundits want to understand middle America, I'll just say one more time Faulkner published Barn Burning in Harper's Magazine in June of 1939.
It's all right there.
“In historiography, a rupture in tradition, through which the interpretive systems that guarantee identity lose their social integrative power, serves as an indicator of the collapse of social systems.”
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“Crisis occurrences owe their objectivity to the fact that they issue from unresolved steering problems."
“To use the expression ‘late capitalism’ is to put forward the hypothesis that, even in state-regulated capitalism, social developments involve ‘contradictions’ or crises.”
Habermas. Legitimation Crisis.
“If the media are so important in modern democracies, this is the case not only bc they enable the control and government of public opinion, but also and above all bc they manage and dispense Glory, the acclamative and doxological aspect of power that seemed to have disappeared in modernity.”
Agamben. The Kingdom and the Glory.
Phenomenology Friday
“It is the function of an ontological concept to use some realm of experience to point to characteristics of being-itself which lie above the split between subjectivity and objectivity and which therefore cannot be expressed literally in terms taken from the subjective or the objective side. Ontology speaks analogously. Being as being transcends objectivity as well as subjectivity.”
Paul Tillich. The Courage to Be. 1952.
